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In reply to the discussion: How many DUers are old enough to have experienced our bad losses? [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)The right were after him because of the Civil Rights Act, and the left because of the war.
He could not have won, he thought.
In 1968, the South voted against Democrats. Race lost that race. The Democratic stance on race discrimination also lost the races in 1980 and 1972. Carter did not lose the race issue in 1976 because he was from Georgia, a Southerner. Reagan played the race card against Carter as will as the hostage card in 1980 and won
So racism was a big factor, probably bigger than economic liberalism, in several of the losses that the OP discusses. I question whether Kerry really lost Ohio in 1968. And on September 11, 2001, the newspaper consortium that reviewed the alleged Gore loss in Florida came out with a report that showed how many votes Gore and Bush II would have received based on various methods for counting the votes. In all the methods that I would have thought reasonable and legal, Gore would have won. So there are grave questions as to whether Democrats actually lost in 2000 and 2004. Personally, I believe that Bush II's presidency was a fraud from start to finish.
Make sure that the polls are carefully monitored and the votes counted, and liberal Democrats win.