This will be about old fashioned common-sense campaigning on message. Trump has the message.
Clinton has the mess.
I don't buy it either. It's laziness, a comfortable explanation as to why a lousy or unpopular (but FR favorite) candidate lost.
I don’t know how you would be in a position to know whether an election was actually stolen or not, especially in 1960.
You’re right that Trump would destroy the vile harridan Hillary though.
“Sorry. I have never, ever bought into the notion that elections are “stolen.””
I’m with you...they likely steal a ‘few’ votes, but the reason we lose is that us, WE THE REPUBLICAN VOTERS cannot seem to STAND UP to the Karl Rove and media types (same people) and wind up with Bush Sr. (’read my lips’), Bush Jr. (taking a victory lap 4 days before the 2000 election), Dole, McCain and Romney.
I’d JUST LOVE to believe that the Dems are stealing elections from us...but given the samples that we run, they don’t need to bother.
“Sorry. I have never, ever bought into the notion that elections are “stolen.” It’s highly dubious that Nixon lost in 1960, and probably the last stolen election was 1876 . . . by the Republicans.”
You have 1876 exactly backwards. Samuel Tilden a crooked Democrat backed by Tammany Hall and former DNC Chairman,sent his thugs to Florida with instructions to buy two Electoral college votes. He failed and the Republicans traded Hayes in the White House for KKK Democrat business as usual in the South. After the election was settled, when the New York Times was still an honest outlet it ran an extensive article showing how Tilden communicated by coded messages sent by telegraph. The voting machines in the Chicago River that were discovered later and the HUNDREDS of reported crooked Democrats brazen criminal acts that swung Illinois to Kennedy would tend to disprove your assertion about 1960. That said the ONLY reason why the Democrats could not steal Florida in 2000 was because people like me and thousands of others kept the pressure up and kept our eyes and ears open.