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Jul 11, 2019 · A brief summary of some of the dirty tricks in American elections shows that they tend to have the following objectives: create doubt around a candidate’s character; confuse the voters about the ...
Nov 6, 2007 · The 1960s was the era of Democratic dirty tricks — in 1964, Lyndon Johnson oversaw one of the most corrupt elections ever, against Barry Goldwater. In 1840, the American Whig politician Thomas Elder had a eureka moment when he wrote to a friend: “Passion and prejudice properly aroused and directed do about as well as principle and reason in ...
Sep 15, 2004 · Still another involved the printing up of phony ballots; the ballots mixed up the names of Democratic and Whig electors, which was intended to confuse voters. After the Civil War dirty tricks ...
HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS. Nixon’s victory over a Democratic party in disarray was the most remarkable landslide since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s reelection in 1936.
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Oct 25, 2016 · October 25, 2016. Dirty tricks: Then and now. Undercover videos of Democratic operatives bring to mind the Watergate era. Students of the Watergate era (or those old enough to have lived through it) will recall the “dirty tricks” played by Richard Nixon’s henchmen, most notably Donald Segretti.
Mar 9, 2018 · Dick Tuck was a Democratic consultant and renowned dirty trickster who had built his reputation in political circles by pulling pranks that targeted Nixon throughout the 1960s.
Nov 9, 2018 · The Democratic playbook of dirty tricks is getting so, so, so old. First the Blasey/Kavanaugh show, which was a redux of the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas show. Now the Florida recount, which ...
