“Richard Nixon, when he lost to [John F.] Kennedy thought that the election had been stolen in Chicago, which was very likely true with the system at the time,” Justice Antonin Scalia told The Telegraph.

A little late to comments, but can we please put this canard to bed?

The electoral vote margin in 1960 was 303 for Kennedy, and 219 for Nixon.

That’s a difference of 84 electoral votes. In 1960, Illinois was worth 27 electoral votes.

Do the math.

Obviously, Kennedy would have won the election whether or not he won Illinois. It wasn’t even close.

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Doesn’t the unesteemed honourless sirster know Marlon Brando’s already done that, and better?

A real senator doesn’t give consent to any appointees the likes of which Bush has presented. We ALL saw what was coming from this SCROTUS court but somehow the senators are blind as bats (on issues of war too, hence the AUMF).

I realized hearing some NPR reports on the youth vote that there are voting-age people that have lived their entire teenage and adult lives under this Bush-world, where government leadership and media elites do not debate policy in an intelligent way, but rather deploy depressingly crude arguments and posturing strategies to stake out their views. I do remember pre-2000 (no golden age) when President’s were articulate, Legal scholarship was above politics, and media types dissected political rhetoric based on some laying out of the facts at hand. Now, to a younger generation (even though I’m 27), government and the institutions that are supposed to hold it accountable have been debased to the point where “Bring It On”, “Suck On This” and “[this opinion] will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed” are positions in policy debate and formulation. They have to be legitimate, because the premier executive, judges, and journalists in this country have made them and have not been laughed out of their positions of power.

I can’t imagine how teenagers can sit through a basic High School Civics course these days without snickering uncontrollably. What Obama will do this country after these 8 years at this basic level almost makes me forget his shortcomings.

what can be done to convince Nino that he just isn’t that smart?

marion at 30–that was just one thing, i think.

and nirsje, the mark thing he had blown off. or found a way to get around it.

crosstimbers at 28—that’s what i remember, someone who goes off topic on a regular basis basically told the vet guys that they were off topic and to stfu like she owned the place……one or two others joined in……..

ohters said they liked the talk and if they didn’t like it, to just skip over it…..was one of the only times they had done that that much on a thread and she acted like they did it all the time.

haven’t seen him since. figured he was doin’ the same thing i was when i got pissed off at people here.

ls asks about him all of the time.