2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: After Primaries Over, Two Words We Must Never Forget, "Supreme Court" ..... #1 [View all]Stuart G
(38,527 posts)John Kennedy's response in the Cuban Missile Crises signifies how votes count..proof?. OK..
Kennedy won Illinois by a few thousand votes...nine thousand to be more accurate
http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1960&fips=17&f=0&off=0&elect=0
2,377,000...Kennedy..49.98%
2, 369,000..Nixon......49.80%
Now, Nixon it seems, as history later shows, liked to keep war going..(that is another discussion for a different time)..Kennedy on the other hand, wanted to prevent war. So, he gave Nikita Khrushchev enough wiggle room to pull the missiles out of Cuba. Hard to imagine Nixon doing the same thing..unlikely.. So those 9000 votes out of 4,744,000 did indeed make a difference. Just like those votes that were stolen in Florida made a difference in another much more negative way. A few votes do make a difference. It is not just the Supreme Court, but life and death in other ways too. The republicans want only their people to vote, so that is what they try to make laws around that idea..
We need to vote to save us and our families. It is very important, but nobody makes you vote. Think it over..
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