Posted on 07/19/2024 12:08:29 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Amid calls for President Joe Biden to withdraw as a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, many people are drawing comparisons to 1968, when President Lyndon B. Johnson declined to run for reelection, citing conflicts caused by the Vietnam war, violent inner-city protests, and widespread poverty. Johnson’s vice president, Hubert Humphrey, earned the nomination and ended up losing to Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee.
On July 18, the X account for MSNBC’s Morning Joe posted a clip of hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski discussing the 1968 election. Nikole Hannah-Jones, an investigative reporter for the New York Times Magazine and author of the 1619 Project, quote-tweeted the clip and said “Yes. And Nixon won in a landslide.” She appears to have deleted the tweet.
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“Why do they mention the popular vote over and over when that doesn’t even count?”
Because manipulating the Electoral College vote in their favor is a logistical nightmare. Even when they get enough illegitimate voters in all the right locations, those voters could just up and move to somewhere else where the benefits are more generous. They would prefer to pour all their illegal votes into one convenient location. Chicago, say.
I just want to know what defines a landslide election.
We have 538 total electoral votes and Reagan took 525 (97.5%) back in 1984. Is that a landslide or is 99% needed?
Every so often in life something happens that you seem to remember forever. For me that was the case in 1968 on election eve with Hubert Humphrey.
They ran a spot showing Hubert bowling and the pin setter froze or something. It showed that fat ass running down the lane in his white shirt and tie to fix the problem. It was so pathetic but I am sure it convinced some nieve voters to see him as an active problem solver but to me he looked like a fat ass bafoone.
IOW, it's a bid to get rid the electoral college/system. Been working on it for years. As dumb as the population seems to be getting, it'll happen.
A landslide means 60 or more of the popular vote.
Big deal. Nixon won in 1968 by about the same margin as JFK had beaten him (allegedly) in 1960.
Nixon got all the electoral votes apart from Massachusetts' I think it was.
Only one POTUS received 100 percent of the electoral votes.
George Washington.
Good numbers, thank you.
But why Kennedy’s “victory” in 1960 not be considered “very close”? He only with cheats in Chicago (from Mayor Daly’s machine), West Virginia. Then HI - after their court case.
Btw, I read your post. Thanks for the breakdown.
It turned out that Nixon didn’t need those Wallace votes. I think they were probably lost to both candidates. Some kind of “States’ Right Democrat” would have carried some of the Deep South States if Wallace hadn’t run.
Outside the Deep South, it’s not clear that a majority of Wallace votes would have gone to Nixon if Wallace hadn’t run. More Wallace voters (I think) were registered Democrats (as were more Americans) than registered Republicans.
The Deep South States went for Goldwater, but I wouldn’t call those voters Goldwater Republicans. Maybe call them “Goldwater Democrats”. Outside of those states, it’s likely that most Goldwater Republicans voted for Nixon.
“I’ve heard Wallace would have cut his best deal and endorsed one or the other.”
Wallace’s public statements were that he would win outright - but if not win outright he would use his electoral votes to force compromise on the issues important to Wallace voters.
Wallace didn’t say he would cut a “deal”; he said he would agree to a covenant.
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