Neither party has the kind of attention span for anything like that kind of a deal. The sharpest of them hardly think past the next election.
On Sat, Sep 19, 2020, 7:36 PM Dayne Goodwin <[email protected]> wrote: > I doubt there is any truth to a claim that there was a literal quid > pro quo between Republican and Democrats regarding the 1960 and 2000 > presidential elections. I don't think that the 1960 corruption (i.e. > evidence Louis just provided) would be adequate leverage to effect > Democrat behavior forty years later in 2000. I think the > Gore/Democrat campaign just caved - probably for social stability and > 'the good of the country.' The Democrats did put their loss to good > use by blaming the Nader/Green Party campaign and fortifying the > capitalists' two-party political system. That Nader cost Gore the > 2000 election has become one of those major false "facts" (i.e. U.S. > intervened in Vietnam to protect democracy in South Vietnam) regularly > reported in the 'news' media. > > On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 9:09 AM Ken Hiebert <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 08:57 PM, Dayne Goodwin wrote: > > An alarming part of that whole episode is that Gore and the Democrats > basically surrendered to the Republican use of force, apparently choosing > 'stability' over democratic process. > > > > Is there any truth to the claim that this was a quid pro quo for the > Republican acceptance of the election of Kennedy in 1960? It was widely > claimed that voter fraud in Illinois swung the election for Kennedy. > > I do not recall where I read these claims. > > ken h > > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1761): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1761 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76881060/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
