It is interesting how the MSM wanted Obama to win the ‘rat nomination, wanted McCain to win the GOP, but wanted Obama to beat him in the general. They were 3 for 3. Perhaps they were just lucky this time, they certainly don’t get their way every election cycle; but they certainly have good reason to feel pretty powerful about now.
“Perhaps they were just lucky this time, they certainly don’t get their way every election cycle; but they certainly have good reason to feel pretty powerful about now.”
In my adult lifetime, they managed to keep clinton viable in 1992, though I think his victory in 92 is mainly due to ross perot (speculate as one will about his motives). In 1996, when you back perot’s numbers out, I don’t see that he was guaranteed to beat Dole, though it is possible since some perot voters then would just have voted for perot and stayed home otherwise.
2000 and 2004 they didn’t get their candidate in.
Anyone old enough to remember, say 1976, or the 1960 elections (which were won directly due to established vote fraud in tx and chicago, iirc, and it was known at the time)?
2008 they picked both major party candidates, including a democrat who had really never done anything in his life of note and who managed to not release a single major record about his past, and elected him.