Yeah, I fixed it, actually. I have an account on it. I accidentally did it without being logged in and someone sent me a message saying I should join. I told 'em I already was a member and forgot to log in. When I logged in, the same person sent me a "welcome to Wiki" message... but I've already been a member since '06, I think. They're smoking crack over there.
"I have the feeling sans-watergate that '74 would have been a decent mid-term. So much scum won only because it like Leahy."
We probably would've lost seats, it just wouldn't have been as it ended up. Probably more like 1970. Most importantly, a lot of Governorships wouldn't have been lost. Such as AZ, CA, CO, CT, etc. Lamar! would've won that year in my state and would've been out in '82 (and then would've either run against Sasser that year or waited for the open seat in '84 to run against Gore, the only one who could've beaten him).
"That hypothetical McGovern Mcmidterm could have been sweet."
Yeah, though the scenario that would've elected McGovern would've meant a wipeout for the GOP. McGovern would've been terrifying as President. Like electing Henry (not George) Wallace. A nice man, but a dupe and an incredibly naive man on policy. Of course, with the False Messiah now, he's going to make McGovern look like Jesse Helms.
"Thank goodness they weren't ready for KKT. Too bad about Ellen Sauer(brey) though."
One might say Sauerbrey was the actual victor. Baltimore is the NOLA of MD. It's too bad she never tried out for a Congressional seat, but now at 71, she's a little past her prime.
"That's whacked out. This survived Baker Carr?"
It must have, since it didn't change during the early to mid '60s. They didn't redistrict and renumber all the districts until the 1974 elections. I still don't know how they get away with it as it stands without a one-member, one-district scenario (proportional, such as IL had is one thing, but they don't do that in MD, otherwise there'd be a larger number of members - then, of course, if you did, you'd have a crapload of ghost Republicans from Bawlamer and PG as inner city Chicago did).
"Yeah. Kinda seems like the the way the British Parliament used to elect members long long ago. And it stinks they have 4 year terms"
However, in the case of MD, it probably benefits us and prevents any dramatic and rapid turnover of new members, such as Republicans winning a single term and then not being able to repeat. 4 years gives them time to accomplish something and not have to be in constant reelection mode. In some states, like NY & RI, you had a situation where there were yearly elections for the legislature at some points. Do that today and that would be a nightmare. People then, though, didn't have to face a constant barrage of tv ads... no tv !
"What and awful VP Choice. Worst ever."
I think Biden and John Edwards are a smidge worse. Lodge was misguided, but he wasn't criminally evil.
"Human Events ran a piece, it used to online now it's not, about the '52 Senate races and they were rooting for the "Nationalist" Kennedy over Lodge."
I said, it would've been tough to decide at the time, but given that it was for control of the Senate, I might've reluctantly had to pull it for Lodge, but I wouldn't have liked it. I'd have preferred someone like Laurence Curtis, the Congressman who won that year, be the GOP nominee. He was a solid Conservative, probably the last unapologetic one ever elected up there. The only problem was that Curtis was 24 years older than JFK (and 9 years older than Lodge). Ironically, Curtis would outlive JFK by nearly 26 years (he died short of his 96th birthday in 1989).
"I'm thinking a Southerner or quasi-southerner would've been best. Time magazine mentions Thurston Morton (moderate I think) and Ike's Sec Treas. Robert Anderson of Texas who it seems Ike liked a whole lot (bad sign). But given what happened to him later with the booze and criminality obviously not a good choice."
The Southern strategy hadn't been adopted at that point. Nixon was looking to put the northeast in his column. Other than Lodge, he might've had to have gone with Nelson Rockefeller, then in his 1st term. Ultimately, his best bet might've been Goldwater himself, but being from an adjacent state, that would've been considered risky not selecting someone from the east. Gov. Bill Stratton of IL might've been an interesting choice, though he went down to defeat that year to Otto Kerner. When I wrote to Governor Stratton a few years before his death, I'm sorry I didn't think to ask him about that scenario. I wrote to Gov. Bill Scranton of PA regarding 1964, and wow, he was STILL pissed about it in his letter to me over 30-some years later.
"Segregationist huh. Was he better than Agnew otherwise? Smells like Huckabee."
I can't say what Mahoney would've done. He never won office (aside from an appointment to the State Racing Commission and was elected Delegate to Dem Conventions) but was regarded as a perennial populist rabble-rouser for Governor and Senator. He was actually from Baltimore (Irish Catholic pol), but the urban liberals despised him. He probably would've been similar in style to Lester Maddox, who won the same year he ran his most serious race for Governor ('66). Agnew ran to his left (he had been a liberal Republican), but the riots in Baltimore so shook him that he began to reassess if taking a liberal approach to issues was workable anymore. He moved over to Mahoney's law and order mindset. Had Agnew lost to Mahoney in '66, Nixon surely would've gone with liberal MA Gov. John Volpe instead (he wanted a non-WASP ethnic running mate). Volpe would've probably been identical or worse than Jerry Ford was as President.
"David Markey Did he ever hold an office? The political graveyard doesn't think so."
Careful. Larry Kestenbaum doesn't keep up to date across the board on things (I think I suggested to him once to allow a select group of us access to editing, I've been a member of his advisory panel for 10 years now, but he prefers to enter in all of it himself with coding he devised all from one location. In that way, he is 100% responsible for all content, but he only rarely updates it because of his full-time political office and family committments).
"What a state. Dixiecrats and superrinos. How much of a DINO was Guv Schaefer? He sounds like a big one."
Schaefer was pretty much for Schaefer, he was not a DINO so much as an iconoclast and could often infuriate everybody. He'd hold grudges over little things. One I remember had to do with a fountain commissioned by his long-time companion (he never married) who served as hostess during his administration. Glendening shut the fountain off shortly after Schaefer was elected Comptroller, and Schaefer didn't forgive him for that slight. The two of them HATED each other (I heard Schaefer's pet name for Glendening was "the Ayatollah"). Schaefer much preferred Ehrlich and Ehrlich turned the fountain back on and Schaefer was quite pleased by that. A fountain. Oh, well... Schaefer was probably senile during his last term as Comptroller, though it afforded him to be blissfully PC-free. He lost renomination in '06.
LOL. I have a logon but haven't bothered to use it in quite some time. Checking it just now, 2006 was the last time I edited something using it. Some of my edits have bolded Ms in front of them??
'84 to run against Gore, the only one who could've beaten him
I don't get why the son of a guy who lost was such a strong candidate. That Ashe was a lousy RINO right? Like that Mayor of Fort Wayne Paul Helmke that ran against Evan Bayh in 1998. Now he heads up the Brady Bunch.
One might say Sauerbrey was the actual victor. Baltimore is the NOLA of MD.
Oh certainly. Any rat with a small margin is suspect.
Bawlamer
Is that how natives say it? Yikes.
4 years gives them time to accomplish something and not have to be in constant reelection mode.
I like the idea of 3 year terms. With a 1 year term...oh boy.
I think Biden and John Edwards are a smidge worse.
I meant on our side.
Eagleton of course caused political damage and was thus a bad pick.
I said, it would've been tough to decide at the time, but given that it was for control of the Senate
Too bad the ACU was founded a few decades earlier. I'd have voted for Lodge. Lyndon Johnson? Shudder.
Laurence Curtis,
I see he ran in 62 and lost the primary to George Lodge(still alive), dammit.
The Southern strategy hadn't been adopted at that point
Allegedly Nixon ran a 50 state race didn't he.
He should've focused more on the South imo.
I wrote to Gov. Bill Scranton of PA regarding 1964, and wow, he was STILL pissed about it in his letter to me over 30-some years later.
Stilled pissed he lost? Sure why not. Typical big headed fellow.
Nixon surely would've gone with liberal MA Gov. John Volpe instead (he wanted a non-WASP ethnic running mate).
I read somewhere that Rocky was allowed to name the VP pick. Sounds unlikely. Oh Tricky dick you stink. Another MA RINO?
Careful. Larry Kestenbaum doesn't keep up to date across the board on things
I noticed it omitted an office I knew who a guy had held. So did Markey hold an office? Or was he just a vet?