Posted on 12/09/2020 7:35:57 PM PST by rintintin
During this presidential campaign, Republicans have vigorously charged that the Democrats are trying to win the election by the using fraudulent mail-in ballots. As these charges and counter-charges are hotly disputed, some pundits refer to the 1960 presidential election that pitted Richard Nixon against John Kennedy, where Republicans claimed that the Democrat had won the contest by fraud.
These allegations on behalf of Kennedy primarily focused on the voting in Illinois and Texas. In the former, Chicago mayor Richard Daley ran Kennedy’s statewide campaign. Even before ballots were cast, Republicans asserted that there was going to be fraud, and immediately after the election, they attacked Daley for stuffing ballot boxes to assure his candidate’s victory. Daley instantly replied that if any fraud had occurred, Illinois Republicans were equally guilty of corrupt practices. Over the past six decades, others sympathetic to Democratic causes agreed with the mayor that both sides used potentially illicit means to win the state.
This rationale is without foundation. Over the last 60 years, only one historian, Edmund Kallina Jr., has attempted to determine how much, if any, fraud took place in Chicago. He concluded that Democrats had acted corruptly, but Nixon would still have lost the state by less than 1,000 votes. However, neither Kallina nor anyone else evaluated possible criminal behavior in any of the precincts.
In addition, the day after the election, Kennedy told his friend and future Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee that Daley had told him that he had won Illinois by fraud, and every major Daley biographer agreed. The Illinois Democratic chairman after the election, furthermore, informed the chief counsel of the Kennedy campaign that he had not found any evidence of fraud committed by the Illinois Republican Party.
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I worked for Nixon-Lodge in 1959-1960, and Chicago mayor Richard J Daley delivered Cook County and downstate IL to JFK, on Joe Kennedy’s orders and multi-million dollar check, so we lost.
These were Democrats, not commies/leftists/socialists/BLM filth/ marxists/anarchists etc; they were civil until LBJ got in, after having JFK assassinated.
This election was in many, many billions for hardware ,software and labor.
How different would Vietnam have turned out if Nixon had won, instead of being defrauded?
But we also would not have had to deal with Castro because Nixon would not have withdrawn our support.
Voter fraud in 1960 eventually lead to Vietnam and millions of people dying.
obama elected lead to million people dead in the mideast and all the wars he started.
Biden fraud could lead to nuclear weapons being used against Israel and the USA by Iran.
Never ever allow a democrat in office of any kind.
I worked for the Nixon campaign in 1960 at age 10 along with my parents (I stamped Nixon’s picture on envelopes sent to voters). I well remember the election fraud claims back then.
If Nixon had successfully challenged that election, there would have been no Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall, Cuban Missile Crisis, or Vietnam War.
Wow. I was one year old.
I was 11 back then, and the level of corruption, fraud and cheating was something I’d never experienced. They literally got away with “political murder”.
Not your fault... LOL.
Yeah, but 10 more years of the EPA. Plus 18 year olds voting, was that his thing or just happened while he was in office?
There is no honor among thieves.
In a way, JFK reaped his just reward.
Perhaps Pedo Joe and Cameltoe will reap their just reward.
But in 1960, the voter fraud went against the more left-leaning candidate.
If Nixon had successfully challenged that election, there would have been no Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall, Cuban Missile Crisis, or Vietnam War.
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Yes, by challenging Texas. Kennedy would have won, with or without Illinois’ electoral votes.
While in college pursuing a Political Science degree the 1960 election came up frequently and with always a wink and smile among my Democrat contemporaries. They openly argued that doing anything to win was acceptable. In the 2007 election, when I heard Obama use the phrase “fundamental change”, I immediately recognized it from college as a revolutionary objective and Obama did his best to fulfill his pledge. Anyone who thinks that today is politics as usual is sadly mistaken.
Clue number one that fraud has taken place is the election totals are improbably close. Cheaters want to minimize the chances of getting caught so only sneak in enough fake votes to win.
Bump
” they were civil until LBJ got in, after having JFK assassinated.”
I don’t call stealing an election “civil”. They were communists even then. Wilson, FDR, et al., were all devout socialists, a cute name for a communist.
You’re right.
Socialism is just a ‘rest stop’ on the road to Communism.
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