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« on: August 30, 2011, 05:38:39 PM »
What do You think?
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« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2011, 05:58:17 PM »
Daley would never run for President; he was a Chicago man, not a national figure.
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« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2011, 06:08:03 PM »
What Snow said. He wanted to be kingmaker, not king.
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« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2011, 06:14:52 PM »
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« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2011, 06:16:12 PM »
Of course, but the fiction of this scenario is what You've said: what result can obtain a kingmaker like Daley?
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« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2011, 06:22:25 PM »
More blacks may cross over to Nixon if Wallace still runs (IIRC, the big city machines weren't exactly into civil rights, and certainly not to HHH's extent), and his iron grip on Cook could possibly deliver him Illinois. Otherwise, he wins nothing more than Massachusetts, Hawaii, and Rhode Island,
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« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2011, 08:03:06 AM »
Nixon/Agnew...   375 electoral votes

Daley/Humphrey...117 electoral votes

Wallace/LeMAy...  46 electoral votes
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