Re: AIS: Picking a Dykes Winner
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] AIS: Picking a Dykes Winner
- From: E* L* C*
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:42:00 -0500
At 07:32 AM 3/12/02 -0500, storylade wrote:
>In a message dated 3/11/2002 11:04:19 PM Central Standard Time,
>jcwalters@bridgernet.com writes:
>
><< as Harold Stassen ever had of being elected President >>
>
>And WHO was Harold Stassen? (just another point)
>
>Betty from BG KY USA Zone 6
Harold Stassen was governor of Minnesota during World War II -- considered
by most at the time to be a very young and promising public figure. He ran
for President against Franklin D. Roosevelt and Wendell Wilkie of Indiana
in 1944. He was banking on public revolt at the idea of Roosevelt being
elected for a fourth term and the relative obscurity of Willkie. (I was
then at Northwestern University, which held a mock presidential convention
every election year. It was a big campus event. Stassen won hands down.)
He subsequently ran for President as a third party candidate every four
years for most of the rest of his life, and his public image dropped from
that of a viable candidate and perhaps a breath of fresh air to a sort of
national joke. I believe he is now dead, which -- given the cynicism of
the comparison -- doesn't really affect his chance of being elected.
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