Posted on 08/19/2024 9:58:40 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
On Dec. 1, 1960, the far-right preacher and racist demagogue Gerald L.K. Smith sent out a fund-raising appeal, headlined with a shocking claim in red type across the top: “HOLD YOUR BREATH: KENNEDY MAY HAVE LOST.”
The 1960 election had indeed been close, but the Democrat, John F. Kennedy, had prevailed, and his Republican opponent, Richard M. Nixon, had congratulated Kennedy on election night, over shouted protests from his supporters.
Three weeks later, Smith, the leader of what he called the Christian Nationalist Crusade, was telling his followers it was possible to reverse that result.
If Smith’s followers would only send him money, he would continue what he called his “subtle campaign of pressure” to persuade governors in states won by Kennedy that they should refuse to send Kennedy electors to Washington for the Electoral College count.
“This,” Smith promised, “could turn out to be the most shocking and sensational Electoral College vote in history.” It was not. There were no shenanigans in the Electoral College count. Kennedy received 303 votes to Nixon’s 219, and the transition of power proceeded peacefully.
Today, it may be worth remembering Smith’s nut-ball campaign to overturn the 1960 election if only to see how far we’ve sunk. You used to have to get out into the far-flung wilds of American political life before you’d find people trying to persuade state or local officials to monkey-wrench the Electoral College by refusing to send their states’ real results to Washington for the Electoral College count. Not anymore.
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Can’t read a maddow piece in the Times
What worries her most?
It should read ‘that they’ll get my facial expression on record and use it as a meme the way they’ve done with that person with the orange cap screaming at the night
Except for this, we know that Kennedy didn’t really win. The mob in Chicago handed him the election. Nixon was being the “statesman” and accepted the Kennedy victory.
That was the way of it. Someone had to accept the bitter pill of defeat on election night, even if it meant forgoing a challenge to a close election.
But that all changed in 2000. And it wasn’t MAGA that changed that or the GOPe. It was Al Gore and the DNC. It was his corny Daley who got off of a plane in Florida and declared, in code, that he planned on bringing some Chicago to Florida to overturn the result.
Losing
What worries you the most? Ummm, You don’t have enough fake ballots printed?
What worries her most?
How will she do the coverage when she’s that drunk ?
What should worry Maddow most is the vision of infuriated mobs with pitchforks and torches coming after the lying media. I can dream...
Has Maddow ever had a single origin insight or interesting turn of a phrase? Unlike Tucker Carlson, who is brimming with both. What has Maddow got to offer other than narrow-minded blinkered fanaticism?
They really do think they are going to win, and they are teeing up the riots when the Imbicile loses.
Georgia requiring number of votes to match registered voters. Will it be weeks post election before they certify?
Except by Madcow and her ilk.
Democrats believe that the elections are OWED to them as The Anointed Party.
That Rachel will commit suicide on national TV
What worries me about ‘election night’ is that it will take democrats 8 weeks to count the votes
I don’t compare Maddow to Tucker. People pretend they have the same job. They do not
Shut up, Meg...
Maddow’s scenario is actually one that should be of much greater concern to Trump - almost all of the swing states have Dem governors.
“Christian Nationalist Crusade....” Oh boy, here we go with all this crap again.
I should have stopped reading at “Radical right wing....”
Seriously, can’t these idiotic leftists come out with something “new”?
Or RINOs like KeMp in Ga. Only GOP GOV in a swing state i can think of is Lombardo in NV
There is also RINO Sununu in NH
It sure ain’t being late for her period
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