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a recent post, I noted that the Democrats have not won a Presidential election with a Northern liberal as their candidate since FDR died, apart from JFK in 1960. With that sole exception, all the successful Democratic Presidential candidates since the death of FDR have been Southerners-Truman (Missouri) 1948, Johnson (Texas) 1964, Carter (
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Me, I think you can't go past our old friend coincidence, especially when comparing two beasts as utterly dissimilar and unrelated as Kennedy's Democrats and Obama's Democrats. But that's just me.
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Yes, politics has changed a lot, but Northern liberals losing is a pattern that has just kept marching on. So if Obama wants to win, he had better not repeat the losing patterns, surely.
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To the point that if Nixon had challenged the Illinois returns (which were heavily ballot-stuffed) he would have won the Presidency in 1960. This might have been a good thing for America, as he almost certainly wouldn't have fumbled the Bay of Pigs and (as a Republican) would almost certainly have signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (I'm assuming that it is improbable he would have been assassinated, since butterfly effects would have made it unlikely for Oswald to have gotten him).
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I'm having to ignore the comments of my pet goldfish who keeps suggesting that your priorities have changed over time though.
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