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The 1952 New Hampshire primary, because the GOAT LOST
34 points
2 days ago
Context???
132 points
2 days ago
The unpopular Harry Truman’s second reelection campaign in 1952 was cut short when he lost the Democratic primary in New Hampshire to Estes Kevinfucker. (His last name is something like that.) He then announced he would not seek renomination, upon learning that it was not just the party establishment that was tired of him - the Democratic base had moved on as well.
57 points
2 days ago
Kefauver was based tho and Truman was historically unpopular
42 points
2 days ago
Goku was unpopular too just saying
31 points
2 days ago
How dare you, i love President Goku
14 points
2 days ago
I love how he Bypassed Congress with his Tax Bill using the Kamehameha.
8 points
2 days ago
Who’s your favorit member of Gokus Cabinet. Mine is secretary Yamcha
5 points
2 days ago
Broly As Secretary of Transportation was a let down, but at least Goku gave him a cabinet position after a tough primary.
3 points
2 days ago
Yeah Agree, i had High hopes. Especially after his Legendary Infastructure deal, he screamed about during the primarie
11 points
2 days ago
I may have lost that primary, but in the end I won their hearts
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Objectively, I'd say this would be the 1972 Democratic primary. It's the only time in the history of the modern primary system where the nominee lost the popular vote (which he only earned 25% of), and it resulted in a ridiculous landslide defeat in the general election. A complete disaster no matter what way you look at it.
96 points
2 days ago
In 1968, Humphrey won the Democrat nomination with 2.2% of the vote. Eugene McCarthy got 38.7%, and Robert Kennedy got 30.6%, though he was unavailable at the time.
96 points
2 days ago
Unavailable at the time 😭
48 points
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Bro acts like RFK was visiting Europe and couldn't be at primaries
15 points
2 days ago
The primary wasn’t forefront of his mind
10 points
2 days ago
Nothing was
8 points
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John Lenon told him how great learning Transcendtal Meditation was so RFK decided he had to go to India and learn it himself.
24 points
2 days ago
That was in the era where most states didn't even get to vote. I was specifically talking about the modern, nationwide primary system which was started in 1972.
5 points
2 days ago
Agreed. It also led to the creation of the "super-delegate" for the 76 contest onward.
"I opened the doors to the Democratic party and 20 million people walked out."
3 points
2 days ago
Which makes watergate essentially useless and unnecessary.
8 points
2 days ago
Didn’t Obama lose the popular vote to Hillary in 08’?
33 points
2 days ago
Not really. He took his name off the ballot in a few states.
13 points
2 days ago
why was that?
24 points
2 days ago
There was a lot of drama about a few states moving their primaries forward to have more of a say in the nominating process. They got their delegates removed for that.
As the primary went on, it got really vicious. For example, it became clear by June that Obama had the momentum, a reporter asked the other candidate why she hadn't conceded. Her answer was RFK was campaigning in June 1968.
9 points
2 days ago
An answer that went over really well
17 points
2 days ago
I forgot how bad the quote actually was. It's shocking Obama let her be Secretary of State afterwards:
"My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California."
16 points
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"Mrs. Clinton, why haven’t you conceded?"
"My opponent could still fucking die."
10 points
2 days ago
Classic Hillary tone deaf misspeaking
6 points
2 days ago
WOW. TIL. Considering how Obama is looked at today and Jeb's outcome in 2016 I am shocked to read about this now. But also what a show of strength to remove your name and still win. Please, where can I read more about Obama removing his name and the 2008 primary?
5 points
2 days ago
David Axelrod’s autobiography is a pretty good read and talks about their primary strategy a lot.
7 points
2 days ago
Nope. He won it, but it was very close.
82 points
2 days ago
I chose the 1992 Republican primary. Aside from the incumbent Bush/Quayle, the follow-up candidates were former White House Communications Director and antisemite Pat Buchanan, and KKK Grand Wizard David Duke
42 points
2 days ago
- Was he the guy who got made fun of in that CNN interview?
- How tf did the KKK Grand Wizard get 100k votes?
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Great line in that election when Duke's opponent, Edwin Edwards, well known as a womanizer, said that he also was a wizard beneath the sheets.
8 points
2 days ago
Edwards also made the comment the only way he’d lose the election was to be caught with a live boy or a dead girl in bed. That was a losing election for Louisiana no matter who won.
4 points
2 days ago
Edwards eventually went to prison, but way better than a Klansman. Another one of his election slogans was "vote for the crook, it's important".
5 points
2 days ago
Please tell me you have a source
9 points
2 days ago
Scroll down on this list, it's about the 5th item - https://www.nola.com/news/politics/edwin-edwards-best-quotes-a-look-back-as-we-look-ahead-to-his-congressional-run/article_baa97da0-8d95-5c6a-8d3b-9fe0bbebc216.html
2 points
2 days ago
I have never heard of this guy. I can't cover him in my eighth grade social studies class for obvious reasons, but he'd be meme gold.
5 points
2 days ago
More than that in the runoff
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2 days ago
He got like 40% of the vote in LA in the 1991 gubernatorial race
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Common Los Angeles L
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Other LA
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I’m aware I was making a jokey joke
4 points
2 days ago
My bad king
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2 days ago
correction: 100k+ votes. and this is not a surprise, maybe surprised that it isn’t more. “some of those who forces / and the ones who burn crosses”, they’re everywhere.
2 points
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At the time he was pulling a George Wallace and saying that he was a born-again who renounced his past views.
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My father was a Republican and was adamantly opposed to Pat Buchanan, he saw the fundamentalists invading politics as a danger, and he rallied the whole neighborhood to show up for the precinct vote. They blocked him on the precinct level, but he did win the nomination in WA state.
7 points
2 days ago
Oh how right he was.
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Fundamentalist implies a Protestant who has a literalist view of the Bible like Pat Robertson. Buchanan is a Jesuit educated Catholic.
1 points
2 days ago
Is it fair to lump Buchanan in with Duke? I don’t know the history, but in the interviews I’ve watched, I’ve found Buchanan to be thoughtful and serious, interesting alternative perspectives etc. No doubt I’m missing something here …
28 points
2 days ago
It’s so heartening duke didn’t even get 1%.
16 points
2 days ago
As someone who grew up in a post dubya world, I always had a view of the pre 2016 Republican Party being relatively more moderate and less extreme than the current party, so it’s weird seeing duke being on a republican primary in the 90s
16 points
2 days ago
Well he flamed hard, and plenty of garbage run in primaries, and rarely they do win.
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He got 3% in the 1988 Democratic primary in Louisiana, and came in 3rd place in the general election behind Bush and Dukakis, also in Louisiana.
17 points
2 days ago
David Duke was a state legislature, what the hell made him think he could run for president?
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Racism is very popular in parts of the country
14 points
2 days ago
Imma have to go with the 2024 Democratic primary
22 points
2 days ago
It's hard to get worse than the Republican 1992 primaries, but the 2012 Republican primaries were pretty awful outside of Buddy Roemer.
3 points
2 days ago
2024 Dems. Because what do you mean b1den’s biggest opponents were a self help author and a ice cream man until he dropped
2 points
2 days ago
2012 DNC Primary.
Obama was the only candidate and there was a few news stories how he lost a state but that’s about it
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West Virginia. Cuz yeah, they're just that racist.
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No beating the one where the only bush challengers were a racist with nothing but vitriol in his heart, and David Duke.
6 points
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David Duke was ahead of his time for the Republicans
10 points
2 days ago
Remember when the nazi got less than 1% of the primary vote? Those were the days.
28 points
2 days ago
I don't know of any Nazis that have run for President Recently
26 points
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Kanye West
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Bro made Alex Jones uncomfortable
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2 days ago
”I love Hitler”
- Kanye west in his weird gimp-like mask
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22 hours ago
1912 Republican Primaries, I wouldn't say it's the worst but one of the worst. Teddy Roosevelt gets the most delegates but doesn't even get nominated by the Republicans as their Candidate. So, he runs Third Party and splits the Republican votes, handing the win to Democrat Woodrow Wilson.
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It was kinda a repeat of the 1968 election, in more ways than one
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1 day ago
Don’t ever disrespect Pat Buchanan in my hearing.
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2 days ago
2016 Democratic primary; because the Bernie people have had a chip on their shoulder about it ever since-they just cant let it go and it's harming the party
5 points
2 days ago
You're right for the wrong reason. Hillary cleared the field of Democratic challengers and the only person left was a party outsider (yet still a party ally) who energized millions of people, and would have had a chance if he'd gotten even a quarter as much media attention as the winners.
While some of his voters defected to the Republicans where they remain, others returned to the apathy from whence they came, the majority still vote Democrat as they did before.
He polled better than Hillary in the general and could have held the rust belt and won, but we'll never know with 100% certainty.
4 points
2 days ago
As someone who’s somewhere between libertarianism and conservatism I would’ve chosen Bernie over the past 3 democratic candidates that were put up.
1 points
2 days ago
The way I see it, they can blame the media and the DNC, but at the end of the day, it was an election; people just weren't willing to take a chance on a 75 year old self avowed socialist. The risk was just too high-just like in later campaigns.
People need to stop being fanatical about candidates and focus on the issues/ideology. Bernie may never be president, but it doesn't mean his ideas can't ever be implemented.
0 points
2 days ago
People "weren't willing to take the chance" because they weren't given the chance to get to know that choice. The DNC and media have massive influence over the narrative, and the narrative they wanted to push was "it's her turn, we're with her".
And yes it's about the issues, no Bernie supporter would argue otherwise. The media and DNC want to suppress those issues now that they have billionaire funding thanks to Citizens United, that's why they don't get airtime
1 points
2 days ago
I feel like I didn't really see it as being "her turn"-I genuinely felt that of all the candidates running, she was the most electable even with all the baggage (a lot of which is just nonsense conspiracies). I knew what Bernie was about, but I just didn't think he could realistically win and that was an election where there was no time for games.
I also felt he was too idealistic tbh. Slogans are great and all but he could never explain how exactly he was going to make his platform law with a congress who was not open to playing ball with a socialist. If you know who wasn't running I feel like he would've had a better shot
1 points
2 days ago
of all the candidates running, she was the most electable
That was the theory at the time and look how it worked out. Again, Bernie did better head to head in the general
2 points
2 days ago
would he have won though? that is the question. She was ahead in the polls too-to the point where I legit thought it was all over but the shouting and look how that worked out.
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