She has SPOCK as her Vice-President, so she wins over people who wants a Vice President Spock. Live long and prosper with Wright and Spock in '76!Well, you may yet be right -- if Wright doesn't unite the hard left, then you may consider yourself vindicated.
(Prediction: 1976 elects a President with less than 30% of the PV.)
Retrospective US Presidential Election: 1972
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McGovern might be a liberal or a progressive in the American sense but he is far from a leftist candidate.
Leftist in the sense that he is left of center. How far left do you have to sit to be considered a true leftist?
I have a feeling someone is going to vote for him. I'm not going to say any names, but Henry Ford.
Hercule Poirot
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Pro-abortion? Oh yeah, I'm sure McGovern loved aborting fetuses. I'm sure he personally aborted a half dozen of them.
McGovern was a liberal yes, but he wasn't some sort of wild eyed radical, and by his own admission wasn't even a pacifist.
Exactly-what's the problems half of the board's liberal-left have with him then?
I deeply dislike McGoverns campaign that year. He doesnt really connect well and his positions are hard to tact down. Thats why I was willing to move to the left a bit and vote for a respectable Leftist like Spock.
Highest voter turnout was 169 in 1904, but this one is pretty close.
Well there's a good chance that this will beat that.
One more vote before tomorrow and this will match 1904 (with my vote making it even).
At this point I'm thinking about voting for Spock for the cool name. Or Nixon for fun.
At this point I'm thinking about voting for Spock for the cool name. Or Nixon for fun.
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For a website dominated by leftists, you would imagine that the actual leftist candidate would win.
For a website dominated by leftists, you would imagine that the actual leftist candidate would win.
That sort of thing was for turn of the century. Debs, Roosevelt, Debs, Roosesvelt, Hughes, Debs, La Follette. Interesting times.