When I was 21 years old I voted in my first presidential election, straight Democratic in the 1964 Elections.
"In one of the most crushing victories in the history of U.S. presidential elections, incumbent Lyndon Baines Johnson defeats Republican challenger Barry Goldwater, Sr. With over 60 percent of the popular vote, Johnson turned back the conservative senator from Arizona to secure his first full term in office after succeeding to the presidency after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963.”
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Lyndon B. Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater for presidency
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President Biden will carry the Democratic Party to crush the Republican Party with a more than 60% majority. The Supreme Court has a chance to keep the Republican Party on life support by removing Trump from the ballot.
Polls are likely way off.
The New York Times
No One Picks Up the Phone, but Which Online Polls Are the Answer?
There’s little transparency and not much evidence to demonstrate the effectiveness of their approach.
By Nate Cohn
July 2, 2019
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On election day 2016 I thought Trump would win. I didn’t think it would be decided at 11pm.
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“Donald Trump may have his strongest support nationally and in Pennsylvania from the very same kind of Democrats that, back in 2008, Governor Rendell envisioned voting for Hillary Clinton and not Barack Obama.”
Supreme Court Filing PUTS THE SCREWS into Gutless Trump
25 of the world’s greatest Civil War legal scholars have banded together to tell the United States Supreme Court that the drafters of the 14th Amendment in 1868 would be SHOCKED that Trump was not INSTANTLY DISQUALIFIED and banned from the ballot by his actions. Michael Popok of Legal AF explains their key historical arguments and why they should defeat Trump’s half baked theories that a president can’t be disqualified without an act of congress.
“Contemporary information provides direct evidence of the enduring reach of the 14th amendment,” the historians wrote. “Congress … chose to make disqualification permanent through a constitutional amendment.
“Republican senator Peter Van Winkle of West Virginia said, ‘This is to go into our constitution and to stand to govern future insurrection as well as the present.’ To this end, the Amnesty Acts of 1872 and 1898 did not pardon future insurrectionists.”
The historians also said “adverse consequences followed” amnesty, many ex-Confederates winning office and “participat[ing] in the imposition of racial discrimination in the south that vitiated the intent of the 14th and 15th amendments to protect the civil and political rights of the formerly enslaved people.”
The historians concluded: “The court should take cognisance that section three of the 14th amendment covers the present, is forward-looking, and requires no additional acts of Congress for implementation.”
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