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solarstorm
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« on: February 25, 2015, 02:16:06 PM »
The hardest "describe a voter" challenge as of yet.
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« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2015, 02:27:37 PM »
Young blue collar type, possibly from the midwest who didn't want to get sent to Vietnam and was anti-war but disconnected from the hippie counter-culture. Voted for Wallace not so much out of racism but just because he thought Wallace was the most anti-war. He also had no seniority at his job and was afraid of losing it due to Affirmative Action. After 68 voted straight ticket Democrat in every election except possibly for Reagan in 80.
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« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2015, 02:44:07 PM »
Someone who "got with the program."
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« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2015, 02:47:22 PM »
Former racist. 
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« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2015, 02:49:54 PM »
A blue-collar unionized Ohio machinist who was initially afraid that civil rights would cause him to lose his job, but eventually came to his senses and realized that civil rights never harmed him. Also, as a worker at an auto-supplier, he loves Obama's auto bailouts and respects Obama for saving his job and employer.
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« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2015, 03:41:35 PM »
A dead person used for voter fraud
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« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2015, 05:59:40 PM »
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« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2015, 06:06:33 PM »
The hardest is Wallace '48/Wallace '68
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« Reply #8 on: February 25, 2015, 08:29:35 PM »
Possibly Wallace himself if alive in 2012.
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« Reply #9 on: February 26, 2015, 12:49:44 AM »

No. Wallace turned Republican and supported Dole in 1996 against Clinton.
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« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2015, 05:13:31 PM »
Quote from: Polls_PuffPass on February 25, 2015, 09:07:31 PM
That's actually true.

Could you imagine if Wallace or another segregationist had lived to 2008 and decided to vote for Obama to show he had changed?

There should be a movie about that.

That'd be a funny little alternate history timeline, somehow have Wallace's health improve so that he lives longer and appear on the campaign trail for Obama.
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« Reply #11 on: February 28, 2015, 08:36:49 PM »
Quote from: Pacific Speaker Türkisblau on February 26, 2015, 12:49:44 AM

No. Wallace turned Republican and supported Dole in 1996 against Clinton.
No his son turned Republican in 1998. His daughter(I think) is a Democrat still. His daughter did say a few years ago that her father would would have likely supported Obama though in 2008.
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« Reply #12 on: March 01, 2015, 02:39:39 AM »
Quote from: Polls_PuffPass on February 28, 2015, 05:21:48 PM
Quote from: Zen Lunatic on February 28, 2015, 05:13:31 PM
Quote from: Polls_PuffPass on February 25, 2015, 09:07:31 PM
That's actually true.

Could you imagine if Wallace or another segregationist had lived to 2008 and decided to vote for Obama to show he had changed?

There should be a movie about that.

That'd be a funny little alternate history timeline, somehow have Wallace's health improve so that he lives longer and appear on the campaign trail for Obama.
And Obama carries the entire South (except West Virginia)...

hmmm

Wallace of 1968 was a lot different then Wallace of 1982 who left with good rating from the NAACP> I mean he supported Carter over Reagan in 1980 so he probably would support Obama over Mccain in 1980
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« Reply #13 on: March 01, 2015, 02:50:41 AM »
Quote from: Polls_PuffPass on February 25, 2015, 09:07:31 PM
That's actually true.

Could you imagine if Wallace or another segregationist had lived to 2008 and decided to vote for Obama to show he had changed?


John Patterson, who was an arch-segregationist Governor of Alabama from 1959 to 1963 and Wallace's direct predecessor supported Obama in 2008.
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« Reply #14 on: March 01, 2015, 07:46:25 AM »
Quote from: vivaportugalhabs on February 25, 2015, 02:49:54 PM
A blue-collar unionized Ohio machinist who was initially afraid that civil rights would cause him to lose his job, but eventually came to his senses and realized that civil rights never harmed him. Also, as a worker at an auto-supplier, he loves Obama's auto bailouts and respects Obama for saving his job and employer.
^^^
Sommething  like this.

I really do not see the difficulty with this one.  Hell, Wallace/McGovern was a harder one.
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