Kennedy vs Reagan

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TEDDY!

He won New York Primary in 1980, and I was in the crowd for his victory speech!  Go Teddy!

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I think it would have been tough... Ronnie was a good campaigner... you saw Teddy in his prime!? wow!...

Yep...and despite his...emmm...mishaps, I still love him.

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Do ya reckon somone like Lloyd Bentsen would have been Teddy's VP or perhaps somone else... addmitedly Bentsen had only been a senator scince 1972 so may be not....  

A southerner anyway.

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TEDDY!

He won New York Primary in 1980, and I was in the crowd for his victory speech!  Go Teddy!

Very interesting that you love Ted Kennedy so much, but have contempt for John Kerry.

That's just the way it is.

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Kennedy would have been a stonger candidate than Carter.

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I read this interesting article in the Atlantic explaining how Ted Kennedy stopped Humphrey from picking Sargeant Shriver as VP, and how that pick would have won the elction for Humphrey.

I bet Ted Kennedy would have won against Reagan. Was Kennedy hated by Republicans for being liberal then? Anderson would have gotten Perot-like support if he ran against the two.

He wouldn't have won...but he'd be (fairly) close.

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Given the choice between the conservative and liberal lions, it wouldn't have even been close.  America will always choose a conservative.  Witness Gore claiming to be a centrist in 2000 and Kerry even claiming to be somewhat conservative.   Reagan by knockout!

that was 24 years ago, a different time.

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Not that different.  Look at the landslide of '72 between a moderate Reublican and a liberal Democrat.  Only a Dem centrist or one who portrays himself as a centrist has a real shot at the White House.

The was wartime.

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And I still remember him in his Massachusetts accent, saying, "Thank you New York!"

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Given the choice between the conservative and liberal lions, it wouldn't have even been close.  America will always choose a conservative.  Witness Gore claiming to be a centrist in 2000 and Kerry even claiming to be somewhat conservative.   Reagan by knockout!

What about 1964? Need I say more?

That was 16 years before 1980, the country changed.