To: WalterSkinner
I agree with you mostly. The political feel of this election is much like Nixon in 1972.
He was vilified by popular media and he was despised by the press. The rats chose to go with a very weak candidate because McGovern was saying all the pandering things the far left wanted to hear.
I suspect the outcome will also be similar. The silent majority was real then and is now.
11 posted on
08/26/2020 6:31:57 PM PDT by
pfflier
To: pfflier
..’72 was my first election. This one feels similar only more intense...
34 posted on
08/26/2020 7:06:01 PM PDT by
WalterSkinner
(In Memory of My Father, WWII Vet 2007 , and Mom, the Best Mother Ever 2019)
To: pfflier
The rats chose to go with a very weak candidate because McGovern
It is a little more complicated than that. McGovern controlled the Rules Committee in '68, and set things up so that the '72 elections would have quotas that would help movement hippie and Commie Dems. It worked the response was the Super Delegates to keep McGovern from happening again but to still have the veneer of minority and female representation.
37 posted on
08/26/2020 7:21:38 PM PDT by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: pfflier
I like your historical analysis, pfflier. Makes good sense.
42 posted on
08/26/2020 7:58:54 PM PDT by
poconopundit
(Hard oak fist in an Irish velvet glove: Kayleigh the Shillelagh we salute your work!)
To: pfflier
Next we will be wearing bell bottom pants.
43 posted on
08/26/2020 8:01:12 PM PDT by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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