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2016 Postmortem

stone space

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11. Due to Felony Disenfranchisement, Debs himself was not one of those nearly one million voters.

Reply to Uncle Joe (Reply #1)

Thu Nov 12, 2015, 06:06 AM

Nov 2015

For one last time, Debs ran for president from his prison cell in 1920, and received nearly one million votes.

Debs was not allowed to vote for himself, because the qualifications for voting for President were more stringent and severe than the qualifications for running for and serving as President.

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Why Bernie Sanders Should Invoke Eugene Debs [View all] mother earth Nov 2015 OP

This part is fascinating. Uncle Joe Nov 2015 #1

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By the 1960s and the Vietnam era protests, that didn't matter. n/t Uncle Joe Nov 2015 #3

Eugene Debs was an incredible man, it's quite telling & appropriate that Bernie greatly admires mother earth Nov 2015 #4

To get near a million votes while you're in jail and this in 1920 with no television or radio Uncle Joe Nov 2015 #5

Absolutely, like today, people who want REAL change, not just phoney rhetoric, are all mother earth Nov 2015 #6

When they say the "winners write history" it's not just the victors of war but those Uncle Joe Nov 2015 #8

Due to Felony Disenfranchisement, Debs himself was not one of those nearly one million voters. stone space Nov 2015 #11

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I wish he would. It would be a good narrative for Bernie KoKo Nov 2015 #9

Disregarding the fact that only a couple of percent of people MineralMan Nov 2015 #10

He made a Debs documentary in 1979 jfern Nov 2015 #12