2016 Postmortem

thucythucy

(8,047 posts) Sat Oct 15, 2016, 01:03 PM Oct 2016

JFK, toward the end of the 1960 campaign,

said he'd gone from simply wanting to be President, to wanting desperately to save the country from Richard M. Nixon.

It's an anecdote I read in David Halberstam's book "The Powers That Be."

I imagine Secretary Clinton reached this point about Trump a good many months ago.

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JFK, toward the end of the 1960 campaign, (Original Post) thucythucy Oct 2016 OP

Yes shenmue Oct 2016 #1

Well, he still failed and that election was close Foggyhill Oct 2016 #2

But only because JFK was taken out thucythucy Oct 2016 #3

indeed niyad Oct 2016 #4

And the wingnuts behaved as they tend to behave. Snarkoleptic Oct 2016 #5

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shenmue

(38,506 posts)

1. Yes

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Sat Oct 15, 2016, 01:09 PM

Oct 2016

Foggyhill

(1,060 posts)

2. Well, he still failed and that election was close

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Sat Oct 15, 2016, 01:11 PM

Oct 2016

thucythucy

(8,047 posts)

3. But only because JFK was taken out

Reply to Foggyhill (Reply #2)

Sat Oct 15, 2016, 01:15 PM

Oct 2016

by "a Second Amendment" remedy. No telling what might have happened if he'd won re-election (and perhaps kept us out of Vietnam).

That election WAS close--hopefully this next one will be a landslide for Democrats up and down the ballot.