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To: carranza2 who wrote (12806)	2/20/2006 2:44:37 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (3) of 541697

I would agree that the 1960 election was probably fixed. If Nixon had been the pretty boy and Kennedy the shifty sweating guy, it might have been looked into more. As for being more adept at taking the sliver, I don't see razor-thin victories as anything more than shoving your candidate over the pile at the goal-line a smidge better than the other team. If less than 100,000 voters had voted differently the last two elections, we would be talking about why the Democrats have a lock on the presidency. I would be impressed with the Republican wins if they had put together a winning electoral combination much like the gerrymandered House districts now, where the odds of losing are much, much less than the relative certainty of winning and holding power. When you take out the fairly easy Republican victories from 1980-1992, you don't get anything more than a hang-on-by-your-fingernails picture. The fact that they barely squeezed through tells me as much about their weakness as their strength. Related topic - anyone have an opinion why Bush never groomed a successor to inherit his "political capital"?

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