B.S.
Squeaker elections aren't referendums at all.
1960 was a squeaker, still too close to call today.
1964 was a referendum on Barry Goldwater, not LBJ.
1968 was another squeaker, not a referendum at all.
1976? Another squeaker...Carter by 2 points...but none of this is the point:
The point is that Ted Kennedy couldn't have beaten Gerald Ford; Phil Crane, Howard Baker or GHW Bush could not have beaten Carter; and Alan Keyes and Orrin Hatch would have lost to Al Gore.
It is your ignorance and your stupidity which are excused. LOL.
If I meant to use the word mandate, I would have used that word. The word “referendum” does not necessarily mean a landslide. In all of those elections people were voting for or against, basically, the status quo. I didn’t say that each election would be a landslide one way or another.Obviously, Some elections are closer than others.
And regarding the one landslide you mentioned, do you really think any of the Republican candidates would have beaten the successor to the martyred JFK? Dream on.
And by the way, don’t forget that Gore won the popular vote. Bush was very, very lucky to have won that election.