Posted on 06/30/2010 2:36:48 PM PDT by Nachum
Ohio, with its 20 electoral votes, has always been in the top tier of bellwether-states-to-watch in presidential elections given that you have to go back to 1960 -- when Richard Nixon carried it in his losing race against John F. Kennedy -- for the last time it failed to support the winner.
And most of those races have been close if you subtract the blow-out elections when Lyndon Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon swamped George McGovern, Ronald Reagan trumped Jimmy Carter and then Walter Mondale, and George H.W. Bush dispatched Michael Dukakis.
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After all has done, and his numbers in Ohio are still that good? That is depressing, and honestly, quite scary.
If Ohio went for Nixon, then Ohio DID support the winner in 1960. So, when did Ohio go for the loser BEFORE 1960?
Nixon was a good sport. And an astute American.He knew that contesting the election would tear the country apart. One story says that when Nixon phoned Kennedy to concede, he said, “Congratulations, Senator. You stole it fair and square.”
Subtracting five out of thirteen elections seems a pretty poor way to prove a point. Sometimes it's close, sometimes it isn't.
1944. Ohio went for Dewey.
All the GOP has to do to win is run a strong candidate. The problem of course being that nobody agrees on who is a strong candidate.
Kennedy won in 1960; assassinated in 1963 bringing Johnson. Nixon followed Johnson in 1968, I think.
OSHA, EPA, Wage and Price controls, gargantuan Government growth, Supplemental Security Income, decoupling from the Gold standard, Consumer Product Safety Commission, The War on Drugs, Established The DEA, The Philadelphia Plan (the first significant federal affirmative action program in 1970), Nixon signed into law Title IX and and the Equal Employment Opportunity Act. Liberal policies one and all.
Not to mention he made the word Republican a dirty word.
No wonder Noam Chomsky called him the last Liberal President.
I'm in Ohio and will vote and I hate the mofo' POTUS POS! This state is totally UNION though, it's basically Michigan-South...
But, as was demonstrated today at politico, polls DO LIE!
Organized crime has kept Ohio afloat since Carter (maybe since Herbert Hoover if you think about it). They now and forever owe the Democrats for this.... (Same outfit, but in cheap suits)
To be fair, imagine what a McGovern or Humphrey administration would have looked like.
As usual we get one long introductory “teaser” that simply wants us to click on someone’s blog.
No thanks. Sorry I looked at this thread.
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This is the first poll I’ve seen that had Fisher ahead of Portman. I also would not take the other numbers they are quoting as gold either. They must be polling at Ohio state to get these numbers because as far as I can see Obama is in a lot more trouble here than this states.
Being an ex-Clevelander, I fear it is a source of as many manufactured votes for Dems as needed, much like Detroit and Chicago.
Only in a town like that could a mayor take them into bankruptcy and then come back and become a US Rep for life (Kucinich).
I wasn’t talking about who moved into the White House and acted as President. I was talking about who won the election.
That was Nixon, not Kennedy.
It’s not you.
The title said there were Warning Signs in Ohio.
I clicked on the thread and there was only a lot of fluff and a link to another website.
I am tired of the blog pimping. (Maybe I mistook your thread for one, I don’t know. Either way, it was a great title with practically no information in the post.)
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