Comments on: Reviving the Right Turn Myth http://thestrangedeathofliberalamerica.com/reviving-the-right-turn-myth.html An Independent Netzine About Ideas Tue, 15 May 2012 16:14:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: liberalamerican http://thestrangedeathofliberalamerica.com/reviving-the-right-turn-myth.html/comment-page-1#comment-10861 liberalamerican Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:33:53 +0000 http://thestrangedeathofliberalamerica.com/?p=1339#comment-10861 I think somehow your comment became attached to the wrong post so I took the liberty of moving it here where the sentence you mention occurs. Hope you don’t mind. As for the comment, technically you are right, but the Lincoln example is a bit of stretch since people of color could not vote at the time. JFK actually did win 50% of the popular vote but only 49% of the white vote. I apologize for this mistake because many years ago I researched the impact of the African American Vote on Kennedy’s election. Although no one kept data on it at the time, I suspect Woodrow Wilson also won with the aid of the African American vote in the three candidate 1912 election, but he did not receive 50% of the popular vote. Correction duly noted and made. I think somehow your comment became attached to the wrong post so I took the liberty of moving it here where the sentence you mention occurs. Hope you don’t mind.

As for the comment, technically you are right, but the Lincoln example is a bit of stretch since people of color could not vote at the time. JFK actually did win 50% of the popular vote but only 49% of the white vote. I apologize for this mistake because many years ago I researched the impact of the African American Vote on Kennedy’s election. Although no one kept data on it at the time, I suspect Woodrow Wilson also won with the aid of the African American vote in the three candidate 1912 election, but he did not receive 50% of the popular vote.

Correction duly noted and made.

]]> By: George Hannauer http://thestrangedeathofliberalamerica.com/reviving-the-right-turn-myth.html/comment-page-1#comment-10857 George Hannauer Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:05:46 +0000 http://thestrangedeathofliberalamerica.com/?p=1339#comment-10857 You stated "The first person to be elected President with a minority of the white vote was Bill Clinton in 1992. " Sorry. Simply not true. Lincoln was elected with less than 40% of the popular vote, which was virtually all-white at that time. A hundred years later, Kennedy won with less that 50% of the popular vote. Since the nonwhite vote went mostly fo Democrats at that time, it's a fair guess that he got less than half the white vote. There may be other examples, but these two leap immediately to mind. I agree with most of the analysis in your post, but I just couldn't let that error slip by. GH3 You stated
“The first person to be elected President with a minority of the white vote was Bill Clinton in 1992. ”

Sorry. Simply not true. Lincoln was elected with less than 40% of the popular vote, which was virtually all-white at that time. A hundred years later, Kennedy won with less that 50% of the popular vote. Since the nonwhite vote went mostly fo Democrats at that time, it’s a fair guess that he got less than half the white vote. There may be other examples, but these two leap immediately to mind.
I agree with most of the analysis in your post, but I just couldn’t let that error slip by.
GH3

]]> By: Hathor http://thestrangedeathofliberalamerica.com/reviving-the-right-turn-myth.html/comment-page-1#comment-10790 Hathor Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:09:23 +0000 http://thestrangedeathofliberalamerica.com/?p=1339#comment-10790 Paul Krugman put a few facts out there, yesterday on "This Week", when George Will tried to run the FDR did nothing to help the depression story. Enough to shut Will up. Paul Krugman put a few facts out there, yesterday on “This Week”, when George Will tried to run the FDR did nothing to help the depression story. Enough to shut Will up.

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