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shua
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« on: June 19, 2012, 03:18:01 AM » |
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The unpledged vote meant that if MS was needed for a candidate to win the electoral college, they wouldn't get it. Then, either a candidate makes a deal with the electors to get their vote, or it goes to the House and some sort of deal or a better candidate is selected. So a protest vote, but not impossible that it would make a difference.
One thing to keep in mind is that MS had the lowest voter participation of any state at that time (25% in 1960).
And that's not just because people weren't interested in voting. In some ways democracy is a recent development in the Deep South. The political tradition was more unified than in neighboring states with more upland areas (eg. AL, where you had pro-Unionists in the hill country during the Civil War).
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