Okay come on guys Mitch McConnell isn't Jack Kennedy
Jack Kennedy never faced the competition McConnell did.
Henry Cabot Lodge would disagree.
and? If you think about it JFK won 2 competitive races in his entire career.
But you were wrong to claim that JFK never faced the competition that Mitch did; won a senate seat against the most famous family in Massachusetts, in a year when Eisenhower carried the state, then won the nomination of the party despite facing the previous nominee and the Senate Majority Leader at the convention, and then beat the sitting Vice-President during a relatively peace and prosperous time.
My entire point is that yes Mitch is a good campaigner, and has come back from bad odds but he's not the best political campaigner in the last 100 years as some people are claiming.
It isn't really comparable though. Lodge expected to sleepwalk to an election win and spent most of his time with the Eisenhower campaign. Lodge was also part of sheniagains to deny the nomination from Taft and was not a benefit of the party unity Eisenhower received. Kennedy was extraordinarly lucky that Lodge was asleep at the wheel until the last week or so.
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