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« on: April 21, 2008, 02:06:50 AM »

It's kind of too bad there had to be such a bitter fight between two great candidates, resulting in neither winning even after one was removed from the race undemocratically but the other couldn't win over his delegates. Interesting topic though.

I probably would've supported McCarthy on the homestate grounds and that I fit his coalition better (liberals and anti-war activists as opposed to RFK's Catholics and ethnic minorities.) Rest of Democrats I can think of:

McCarthy:
Eraserhead
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RFK:
Harry

Meh, I know that's pathetic but it's late. Time for bed for me and probably more tommorow.
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« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2008, 02:11:52 AM »

Honestly, you really don't want to know how much time I have spent thinking about who I would have supported...
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« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2008, 02:12:21 AM »

Though I'm not a Democrat, I would have supported either McCarthy or Kennedy in their quest for the '68 Democratic Nomination. Though I would lean to Gene.
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« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2008, 02:17:35 AM »

I probably would've been for Humphrey, FWIW
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« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2008, 02:28:52 AM »

I probably would've been for Humphrey, FWIW

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« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2008, 07:20:37 AM »

HHH all the way!
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« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2008, 08:36:48 AM »

Probably Kennedy
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« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2008, 08:45:23 AM »

I would've supported RFK most likely.
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« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2008, 10:11:57 AM »

I'd have been a huge advocate for either one.  Love 'em both.
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« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2008, 10:28:47 AM »

I would have voted for Nixon easily in 1968.
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« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2008, 10:31:02 AM »

I could go with either RFK or McCarthy.
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« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2008, 11:16:25 AM »

HHH ftw
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« Reply #12 on: April 21, 2008, 11:55:08 AM »

I probably would've supported HHH, but RFK is very tempting.  McCarthy to me always seemed a bit out there.
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« Reply #13 on: April 21, 2008, 12:25:38 PM »

I probably would've supported HHH, but RFK is very tempting.  McCarthy to me always seemed a bit out there.

This question is about forum DEMOCRATS.
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« Reply #14 on: April 21, 2008, 12:27:12 PM »

I'm excluded? Cry

I'm enough of a left-wing crazy wacko, no?
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« Reply #15 on: April 21, 2008, 12:51:51 PM »

RFK until the assassination, Humphrey afterwards.

Seriously, Eugene McCarthy, the man who said that the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia crushing the Prague Spring was a bigger deal in Moscow than Prague?  Not the man I'd want running my foreign policy.
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« Reply #16 on: April 21, 2008, 02:00:52 PM »

RFK until the assassination, Humphrey afterwards.

Seriously, Eugene McCarthy, the man who said that the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia crushing the Prague Spring was a bigger deal in Moscow than Prague?  Not the man I'd want running my foreign policy.

I wouldn't want someone continuing the same Vietnam policies running foreign policy either...
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« Reply #17 on: April 21, 2008, 02:02:36 PM »

RFK pls.
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« Reply #18 on: April 21, 2008, 03:51:10 PM »

more than likely Eugene McCarthy, since I would have been way more liberal if placed back then.
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« Reply #19 on: April 21, 2008, 04:19:35 PM »

more than likely Eugene McCarthy, since I would have been way more liberal if placed back then.

Eugene McCarthy wasn't really that far left-wing, he was just a crotchety old man who took contrarian positions just to piss people off.  Sort of a proto-Mike Gravel.
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« Reply #20 on: April 21, 2008, 04:23:27 PM »

I own a McCarthy '68 t-shirt.
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« Reply #21 on: April 21, 2008, 04:51:50 PM »


Awesome, well any lefty political geek would say so Wink.

Why would some of you have voted/supported Hubert Humphrey? He was a total whore to Mayor Daley and the Labor Unions.
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« Reply #22 on: April 21, 2008, 05:14:50 PM »

Probably RFK and HHH thereafter. HHH was still better than Nixon.
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« Reply #23 on: April 21, 2008, 05:42:58 PM »

Kind of reminds me of 2008, people are arguing over two unelectable candidates, though one has a better shot.
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« Reply #24 on: April 21, 2008, 06:00:58 PM »

Kind of reminds me of 2008, people are arguing over two unelectable candidates, though one has a better shot.

Bobby Kennedy could well have won.  Hell, HHH could have won.

It was the tumultuous convention in Chicago, more than the primary fight, that made the Dems lose in 1968.  The images of anarchy and a wild, war-like atmosphere doomed the Dems.
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