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To: AuH2ORepublican; GOPsterinMA

Argh, LBJ in AL in ‘64. I don’t know why I momentarily forgot that... Electors there refused to vote for JFK in ‘60, too, casting them for Harry Byrd and Thurmond (as did MS).


94 posted on 04/20/2010 9:20:26 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

In 1960, AL had 11electoral votes. The 11 Democrat electors included 5 “loyalists” pledged to Kennedy and 6 “unpledged” electors. Unlike in MS, voters in AL could not cast their votes for a separate slate of unpledged electors—they could only vote for Kennedy (with his 6 unpledged electors and 5 loyalists) or Nixon. Kennedy carried the state quite comfortably, but had 54.5% of Kennedy votes been cast for unpledged electors and 45.5% of them for Kennedy electors it would have resulted in Nixon carrying the state with a plurality; it also would have given Nixon a plurality of the national popular vote.


126 posted on 04/20/2010 10:16:17 PM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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