(September 29, 2017 at 12:51 pm)Minimalist Wrote: That was a stunning series. The depth of the deception was remarkable. 58,000 dead, hundreds of thousands physically wounded, who knows how many mentally wounded and in the end Gerald Ford, knowing he had no chance of winning the 1976 election after pardoning Nixon said "fuck it."
For all that, the '76 election was hardly a blow-out win for the Democrats. In fact, if you look at the map and how it played out in terms of electoral votes, the results are downright weird, given today's conventional wisdom about which states reliably break Republican or Democrat.
