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Hillary Clinton

BlueMTexpat

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20. Exactly!

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Reply #17)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 05:29 AM

Jun 2016

Divisive national issue AND no primary results because the nominee was selected in the proverbial smoke-filled room by party insiders. This was also after two horrible assassinations that traumatized the nation. One of those removed the leading Dem candidate.

Even with all that, Humphrey was the quintessential liberal and would certainly have been a better President for us all than Nixon - although Humphrey was tainted by association with Johnson's Vietnam policy.

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