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Rageneau

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Fri Apr-25-08 10:17 PM
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13. Refresh our memories. What elections are you talking about?

There are also plenty of electiuons where the Democrats DID have a nominee before the convention and still lost.

But is your history right? I seem to remember that LBJ and JFK battled it out in convention backrooms in 1960. Also, wasn't Woodrow Wilson a compromise, convention-chosen candidate?

Truth is, I don't really kno the exact history of these conventions, so I'm only going by memory. But since you obviously DO know the history backward and forward, why not enlighten us on the conventions that did and did not have candidates selected going in?

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