in all fairness to Johnson, this was actually his second run for the US Senate...his first, a 1941 special election, he got that one stolen from him. Pure Texas politics and he returned the favor in kind in 1948...After the 64 election, you look at the HUGE Majorities he had in Congress...scary stuff. He did a lot of damage with those Majorities too..
Yep. Unfortunately America has a long history of stolen elections. They are not rare at all like the corporate media now wants to claim.
After LBJ complained to his patron FDR about the other side cheating to win that election FDR laughed and said: “Lyndon, apparently you Texans haven’t learned one of the first things we learned up in New York State,” laughed President Roosevelt, “and that is that when the election is over, you have to sit on the ballot boxes.”
ie....you have to prevent the other side from stuffing the ballot box.....ie cheating is regular and to be expected and you have to cheat better than the other side and/or expect them to cheat.