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If you could change one presidential election since 1968

Posted on 06/15/2017 11:14:23 AM PDT by MNDude

If you could change any presidential election so the presidential candidate loser would win, for example John McCain would have become president in 2008 instead of Obama, which election would you change?


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To: Pelham; Cowboy Bob
Nixon also:

Instituted the first federal Affirmative Action program.

Imposed wage and price controls.

Appointed three justices that gave us Roe vs. Wade (The only Kennedy justice on the Supreme Court at the time dissented from Roe v. Wade)

Dramatically increased spending on federal employees.

81 posted on 06/15/2017 2:39:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Democrats hate too much
1976 -— Reagan wins and gets a non establishment VP (many fixes all at once, no Carter and no establishment in the President and VP spots)

Reagan already picked Schweiker who was from the liberal wing of the party.

Most likely, Reagan couldn't have won. The Nixon thing was too recent and voters needed to get really sick of Carter to take a chance on Reagan.

But say Reagan had won. Wouldn't he have gotten bogged down in the whole Seventies malaise? Inflation, gas shortages, Iran.

82 posted on 06/15/2017 2:55:40 PM PDT by x
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To: Mr. Douglas

1992. And then our problems began.


83 posted on 06/15/2017 3:01:21 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: MNDude

The one to change would be 1964. Johnson’s Great Society is the source of many evils.


84 posted on 06/15/2017 3:01:35 PM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: dfwgator
You wanted Humphrey to defeat Nixon?

Good question. Humphrey would have been a feeble, ineffective president. There wasn't much he'd be able to do with a divided party and half the country against him. Would it have been better to let him cope with the mess until the country threw him out in the next election?

85 posted on 06/15/2017 3:16:22 PM PDT by x
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Unfortunately, the one I’d most like to change is outside your parameters: 1964. A Goldwater win makes us an entirely different (an din most ways, better) country today. +1
86 posted on 06/15/2017 3:30:30 PM PDT by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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To: beelzepug

yes and Nafta would be nada


87 posted on 06/15/2017 4:51:22 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (just a conspiracy theory, no facts behind the above post.)
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To: MNDude

If Kerry had beaten Bush, we would have gotten a bumbling moron who would have been the candidate in 2008. Nobama. Of course, we’re done with Obama now and we would have had him looming, so I guess it all worked out as best as it could. But, Bush’s second term was a wreck at any rate.


88 posted on 06/15/2017 4:57:16 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: MNDude

1998 where Jed Bartlett was elected.


89 posted on 06/15/2017 6:45:34 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (for the night is dark and full of terrorists)
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To: MNDude

Taft beats Eisenhower for the Republican nomination and wins the White House. Eisenhower was pretty much one of the first real figure heads placed into power for Internationalism.


90 posted on 06/15/2017 7:06:04 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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91 posted on 06/15/2017 8:22:02 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Mr. Douglas

1960. No communist Cuba after 1964, no Kennedy dynasty, no watergate scandal, no Vietnam War loss, no dixie-crat defection, no president Johnson, no Soviet Union after 1968, no Saddam Hussein, no fall of Iran, no Mujahideen, no Osama bin Laden, 9-11.


92 posted on 06/15/2017 8:43:04 PM PDT by cartoonistx
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I don’t know. I think God had a plan through Reagan, Thatcher and JP2 that was more consequential for more people. So few times in history do a collection of just the right people emerge, who act toward very powerful results.


93 posted on 06/15/2017 8:50:56 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: x

The 1976 election was a booby prize.

Whoever won would have been dealing with inflation, post-Watergate malaise, and the collapse of Iran. Those three things were simply not controllable.

I don’t think there is anything any president could have done with Iran in the big picture. Maybe there is not a hostage crisis, but the outcome of the revolution would have been the same.

The one big event of Carter’s reign (and I’m not trying to downplay the hostage crisis) is Afghanistan. Who knows if that happens with Reagan in office. But maybe Reagan is a crippled politician like Carter and the Soviets think they will be dealing with Ted Kennedy or John Glenn in 1981.


94 posted on 06/16/2017 12:00:14 PM PDT by WVMnteer
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