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by TexasBlue Sat Mar 26, 2011 11:40 am
First Female VP Candidate Ferraro Dies at 75
Geraldine Ferraro, first female major party candidate for national office, has died at 75
Associated Press
March 26, 2011
Geraldine Ferraro, who in 1984 became the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket, only to lose in a landslide, died Saturday. She was 75.
Ferraro died at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was being treated for blood cancer. She died just before 10 a.m., said Amanda Fuchs Miller, a family friend who worked for Ferraro in her 1998 Senate bid and was acting as a spokeswoman for the family.
An obscure Queens congresswoman, Ferraro catapulted to national prominence at the 1984 Democratic convention when she was chosen by presidential nominee Walter Mondale to join his ticket against incumbents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
Delegates in San Francisco erupted in cheers at the first line of her speech accepting the vice-presidential nomination.
"My name is Geraldine Ferraro," she declared. "I stand before you to proclaim tonight: America is the land where dreams can come true for all of us."
Her acceptance speech launched eight minutes of cheers, foot-stamping and tears.
Ferraro sometimes overshadowed Mondale on the campaign trail, often drawing larger crowds and more media attention than the presidential candidate.
"No one asks anymore if women can raise the money, if women can take the heat, if women have the stamina for the toughest political campaigns in this country," Judy Goldsmith, then-president of the National Organization for Women told People Magazine in December, 1984. "Geraldine Ferraro did them all."
But controversy accompanied her acclaim. Frequent, vociferous protests of her favorable view of abortion rights marked the campaign.
Ferraro's run also was beset by ethical questions, first about her campaign finances and tax returns, then about the business dealings of her husband, John Zaccaro. Ferraro attributed much of the controversy to bias against Italian-Americans.
Mondale said he selected Ferraro as a bold stroke to counter his poor showing in polls against President Reagan and because he felt America lagged far behind other democracies in elevating women to top leadership roles.
"The time had come to eliminate the barriers to women of America and to reap the benefits of drawing talents from all Americans, including women," Mondale said.
In the end, Reagan won 49 of the 50 states, the largest landslide since Franklin D. Roosevelt's first re-election, in 1936 over Alf Landon.
In the years after the race, Ferraro told interviewers that she would have not have accepted the nomination had she known how it would focus criticism on her family.
"You don't deliberately submit people you love to something like that," she told presidential historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. in an interview in Ladies Home Journal. "I don't think I'd run again for vice-president," she said, then paused, laughed and said, "Next time I'd run for president."
Zaccaro pleaded guilty in 1985 to a misdemeanor charge of scheming to defraud in connection with obtaining financing for the purchase of five apartment buildings. Two years later he was acquitted of trying to extort a bribe from a cable television company.
Ferraro's son, John Zaccaro Jr., was convicted in 1988 of selling cocaine to an undercover Vermont state trooper and served three months under house arrest.
Some observers said the legal troubles were a drag on Ferraro's later political ambitions, which included her unsuccessful bids for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in New York in 1992 and 1998.
Ferraro, a supporter of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, was back in the news in March 2008 when she stirred up a controversy by appearing to suggest that Sen. Barack Obama achieved his status in the presidential race only because he's black.
She later stepped down from an honorary post in the Clinton campaign, but insisted she meant no slight against Obama.
Ferraro received a law degree from Fordham University in 1960, the same year she married Zaccaro and became a full-time homemaker and mother. She said she kept her maiden name to honor her mother, a widow who had worked long hours as a seamstress.
After years in a private law practice, she took a job as an assistant Queens district attorney in 1974. She headed the office's special victims' bureau, which prosecuted sex crimes and the abuse of children and the elderly. In 1978, she won the first of three terms in Congress representing a blue-collar district of Queens.
After losing in 1984, she became a fellow of the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University until an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate nomination in 1992.
She returned to the law after her 1992 Senate run, acting as an advocate for women raped during ethnic conflict in the former Yugoslavia.
Her advocacy work and support of President Bill Clinton won her the position of ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, where she served in 1994 and 1995.
She co-hosted CNN's "Crossfire," in 1996 and 1997 but left to take on Chuck Schumer, then a little-known Brooklyn congressman, in the 1998 Democratic Senate primary. She placed a distant second, declaring her political career finished after she took 26 percent of the vote to Schumer's 51 percent.
In June 1999, she announced that she was joining a Washington, D.C., area public relations firm to head a group advising clients on women's issues.
Ferraro revealed two years later that she had been diagnosed with blood cancer. She discussed blood cancer research before a Senate panel that month and said she hoped to live long enough "to attend the inauguration of the first woman president of the United States."
Geraldine Ferraro, first female major party candidate for national office, has died at 75
Associated Press
March 26, 2011
Geraldine Ferraro, who in 1984 became the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket, only to lose in a landslide, died Saturday. She was 75.
Ferraro died at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was being treated for blood cancer. She died just before 10 a.m., said Amanda Fuchs Miller, a family friend who worked for Ferraro in her 1998 Senate bid and was acting as a spokeswoman for the family.
An obscure Queens congresswoman, Ferraro catapulted to national prominence at the 1984 Democratic convention when she was chosen by presidential nominee Walter Mondale to join his ticket against incumbents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
Delegates in San Francisco erupted in cheers at the first line of her speech accepting the vice-presidential nomination.
"My name is Geraldine Ferraro," she declared. "I stand before you to proclaim tonight: America is the land where dreams can come true for all of us."
Her acceptance speech launched eight minutes of cheers, foot-stamping and tears.
Ferraro sometimes overshadowed Mondale on the campaign trail, often drawing larger crowds and more media attention than the presidential candidate.
"No one asks anymore if women can raise the money, if women can take the heat, if women have the stamina for the toughest political campaigns in this country," Judy Goldsmith, then-president of the National Organization for Women told People Magazine in December, 1984. "Geraldine Ferraro did them all."
But controversy accompanied her acclaim. Frequent, vociferous protests of her favorable view of abortion rights marked the campaign.
Ferraro's run also was beset by ethical questions, first about her campaign finances and tax returns, then about the business dealings of her husband, John Zaccaro. Ferraro attributed much of the controversy to bias against Italian-Americans.
Mondale said he selected Ferraro as a bold stroke to counter his poor showing in polls against President Reagan and because he felt America lagged far behind other democracies in elevating women to top leadership roles.
"The time had come to eliminate the barriers to women of America and to reap the benefits of drawing talents from all Americans, including women," Mondale said.
In the end, Reagan won 49 of the 50 states, the largest landslide since Franklin D. Roosevelt's first re-election, in 1936 over Alf Landon.
In the years after the race, Ferraro told interviewers that she would have not have accepted the nomination had she known how it would focus criticism on her family.
"You don't deliberately submit people you love to something like that," she told presidential historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. in an interview in Ladies Home Journal. "I don't think I'd run again for vice-president," she said, then paused, laughed and said, "Next time I'd run for president."
Zaccaro pleaded guilty in 1985 to a misdemeanor charge of scheming to defraud in connection with obtaining financing for the purchase of five apartment buildings. Two years later he was acquitted of trying to extort a bribe from a cable television company.
Ferraro's son, John Zaccaro Jr., was convicted in 1988 of selling cocaine to an undercover Vermont state trooper and served three months under house arrest.
Some observers said the legal troubles were a drag on Ferraro's later political ambitions, which included her unsuccessful bids for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in New York in 1992 and 1998.
Ferraro, a supporter of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, was back in the news in March 2008 when she stirred up a controversy by appearing to suggest that Sen. Barack Obama achieved his status in the presidential race only because he's black.
She later stepped down from an honorary post in the Clinton campaign, but insisted she meant no slight against Obama.
Ferraro received a law degree from Fordham University in 1960, the same year she married Zaccaro and became a full-time homemaker and mother. She said she kept her maiden name to honor her mother, a widow who had worked long hours as a seamstress.
After years in a private law practice, she took a job as an assistant Queens district attorney in 1974. She headed the office's special victims' bureau, which prosecuted sex crimes and the abuse of children and the elderly. In 1978, she won the first of three terms in Congress representing a blue-collar district of Queens.
After losing in 1984, she became a fellow of the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University until an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate nomination in 1992.
She returned to the law after her 1992 Senate run, acting as an advocate for women raped during ethnic conflict in the former Yugoslavia.
Her advocacy work and support of President Bill Clinton won her the position of ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, where she served in 1994 and 1995.
She co-hosted CNN's "Crossfire," in 1996 and 1997 but left to take on Chuck Schumer, then a little-known Brooklyn congressman, in the 1998 Democratic Senate primary. She placed a distant second, declaring her political career finished after she took 26 percent of the vote to Schumer's 51 percent.
In June 1999, she announced that she was joining a Washington, D.C., area public relations firm to head a group advising clients on women's issues.
Ferraro revealed two years later that she had been diagnosed with blood cancer. She discussed blood cancer research before a Senate panel that month and said she hoped to live long enough "to attend the inauguration of the first woman president of the United States."
TexasBlue
Re: Geraldine Ferraro Dies at 75
by TexasBlue Sat Mar 26, 2011 11:42 am
No mention that she worked for Fox News. 
She was a classy lady all the same even though I disagreed with virtually everything she stood for. She wasn't a bomb thrower. I have to respect that.
She was a classy lady all the same even though I disagreed with virtually everything she stood for. She wasn't a bomb thrower. I have to respect that.
TexasBlue
Re: Geraldine Ferraro Dies at 75
by TexasBlue Sat Mar 26, 2011 11:45 am
President Bush 41 statement about his one time political opponent Geraldine Ferraro
Greta Van Susteren
Fox News
March 26, 2011
Remember, when President Bush 41 was VP under President Reagan, his direct opponent in the 1984 race was Dem VP candidate Ferraro:
As an aside, it is so President Bush 41 to have made friends with her in later years...just like he did with President Clinton even though Clinton beat him in 92 for the White House.
Greta Van Susteren
Fox News
March 26, 2011
Remember, when President Bush 41 was VP under President Reagan, his direct opponent in the 1984 race was Dem VP candidate Ferraro:
As an aside, it is so President Bush 41 to have made friends with her in later years...just like he did with President Clinton even though Clinton beat him in 92 for the White House.
STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT GEORGE H. W. BUSH
ON THE DEATH OF GERALDINE FERRARO
HOUSTON — Following is a statement by former President Bush 41 on the death of Geraldine Ferraro.
Barbara and I were deeply saddened to learn of Gerry’s passing. Though we were one-time political opponents, I am happy to say Gerry and I became friends in time — a friendship marked by respect and affection. I admired Gerry in many ways, not the least of which was the dignified and principled manner she blazed new trails for women in politics.
Barbara and I — and all Bushes — send our heartfelt condolences and love to Gerry’s family.
TexasBlue
Re: Geraldine Ferraro Dies at 75
by TexasBlue Sat Mar 26, 2011 11:47 am
Reaction to Geraldine Ferraro's Death
Fox News
March 26, 2011
Newt Gingrich:Geraldine Ferraro was a very good friend. We came to Congress at the same time and I had great admiration when she was when picked to be the first woman Vice Presidential candidate for a major party.
She worked with us at the Center for Health Transformation, focused largely on FDA reform and on helping with cancer, because she personally knew how important it was to have new medicines, which had saved her life for a decade.
We will all miss her. She was a very smart, very hardworking, wonderful person with a deep love for her family and for America. We will all miss her. Callista and I are keeping her family in our prayers.
Sarah Palin: My family and I would like to express our sincere condolences to the family of Geraldine Ferraro. When I had the honor of working alongside Geraldine on election night last year, we both discussed the role of women in politics and our excited expectation that someday that final glass ceiling would be shattered by the election of a woman president. She was an amazing woman who dedicated her life to public service as a teacher, prosecutor, Congresswoman, and Vice Presidential candidate. She broke one huge barrier and then went on to break many more. The world will miss her. May she rest in peace and may her example of hard work and dedication to America continue to inspire all women.
George H.W. Bush: Barbara and I were deeply saddened to learn of Gerry's passing. Though we were one-time political opponents, I am happy to say Gerry and I became friends in time - a friendship marked by respect and affection. I admired Gerry in many ways, not the least of which was the dignified and principled manner she blazed new trails for women in politics.
Barbara and I - and all Bushes - send our heartfelt condolences and love to Gerry's family.
Barbara Mikulski: Geraldine Ferraro was a path-breaking figure. She made an indelible mark on our nation's history. She was my very dear friend. I will greatly miss her. My thoughts and prayers are with her and her family at this wrenching time.
To understand Geraldine Ferraro, you had to understand where she came from. Both of our parents owned small neighborhood shops. Her parents, Dominick and Antonetta Ferraro, ran a dime store and a restaurant. After the early death of her father, Antonetta went back into the garment industry to support the family. Gerry really felt the premature death of her dad. But she said it also made her tough.
Gerry's mother was a remarkable woman. On her own, she made sure Gerry and her brother Carl had a good education. She sent them to high school and college by crocheting beads on gowns.
Gerry was grounded in family and faith. She believed in hard work, sticking together, and going to school and church. And never forgetting where you came from. Her faith came from the beatitudes - hunger and thirst after the righteousness.
Even after Gerry married John Zaccaro, she remained a "Ferraro" in honor of her mother.
I came to Congress two years before Gerry. There were only 17 women in Congress at the time -- women like Barbara Jordan, Shirley Chisholm, Elizabeth Holtzman. We became friends. We were the early birds. We weren't afraid to ruffle feathers.
Gerry was a powerhouse. Gerry was smart and savvy. She led from the head and from the heart. For her, it was all about her constituents who counted on her to fight for them. The old lady trying to get her social security check. The vet who needed his disability benefits. The small business guy who wanted to expand beyond his father's shop. The kid from a blue collar family who wanted to go to college. She was a fighter. They were who she was fighting for.
I'll never forget when Walter Mondale chose Gerry for his running mate in at the Democratic National Convention in 1984. She became our first woman Vice Presidential candidate. It sent shock waves through the country. The entire nation was proud that we had broken this barrier. It changed the way we thought of ourselves. Women began looking at themselves in a new way. They would say - she's not that much older than me. She's not that different than me. She definitely has worked hard. But she did it. Maybe I can do it too.
I was so proud of her. So proud of the Democrats. And so honored to second her nomination at the Democratic Convention that August. It was electric. The male delegates had given their tickets to their female alternates so they could witness this grand moment in history. Ten thousand people packed the auditorium, including lots of children. So many people there never thought they'd live to see the day we'd have a woman candidate for vice president.
After the campaign -- I told her, "Gerry -- it's kind of like breaking the sound barrier for the first time. You know, those guys in those planes starting to get to Mach 1 and then they got to Mach 2, or whatever it is they do to break the barrier. We got shaken up and pushed and pulled in a lot of directions just like they did. We didn't do it, but it's only the first time out."
Geraldine Ferraro cracked the marble ceiling. She paved the way for women like Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi. Someday, a woman will become President of the United States -- and Geraldine Ferraro paved the way. But she also paved the way for women in their day-to-day lives.
Gerry's nomination was a milestone for women in the United States but it was only one facet of her lifetime of contributions. She was the daughter of immigrants who lived the American dream and succeeded at a time and a place when women were frequently overlooked and undervalued. All along the way, as a public servant, businesswoman, teacher author and journalist, Gerry led by example and gave back in countless ways.
Her husband John Zaccaro and her children and grandchildren are in my thoughts and prayers.
In her acceptance speech at that convention in 1984, Gerry said that "Every one of us is given the gift of life, and what a strange gift it is. If it is preserved jealously and selfishly, it impoverishes and saddens. But if it is spent for others, it enriches and beautifies."
My dear friend Geraldine Ferraro did indeed live a beautiful and compelling life. The torch is once again passed to a new generation who must now continue the fight.
Fox News
March 26, 2011
Newt Gingrich:Geraldine Ferraro was a very good friend. We came to Congress at the same time and I had great admiration when she was when picked to be the first woman Vice Presidential candidate for a major party.
She worked with us at the Center for Health Transformation, focused largely on FDA reform and on helping with cancer, because she personally knew how important it was to have new medicines, which had saved her life for a decade.
We will all miss her. She was a very smart, very hardworking, wonderful person with a deep love for her family and for America. We will all miss her. Callista and I are keeping her family in our prayers.
Sarah Palin: My family and I would like to express our sincere condolences to the family of Geraldine Ferraro. When I had the honor of working alongside Geraldine on election night last year, we both discussed the role of women in politics and our excited expectation that someday that final glass ceiling would be shattered by the election of a woman president. She was an amazing woman who dedicated her life to public service as a teacher, prosecutor, Congresswoman, and Vice Presidential candidate. She broke one huge barrier and then went on to break many more. The world will miss her. May she rest in peace and may her example of hard work and dedication to America continue to inspire all women.
George H.W. Bush: Barbara and I were deeply saddened to learn of Gerry's passing. Though we were one-time political opponents, I am happy to say Gerry and I became friends in time - a friendship marked by respect and affection. I admired Gerry in many ways, not the least of which was the dignified and principled manner she blazed new trails for women in politics.
Barbara and I - and all Bushes - send our heartfelt condolences and love to Gerry's family.
Barbara Mikulski: Geraldine Ferraro was a path-breaking figure. She made an indelible mark on our nation's history. She was my very dear friend. I will greatly miss her. My thoughts and prayers are with her and her family at this wrenching time.
To understand Geraldine Ferraro, you had to understand where she came from. Both of our parents owned small neighborhood shops. Her parents, Dominick and Antonetta Ferraro, ran a dime store and a restaurant. After the early death of her father, Antonetta went back into the garment industry to support the family. Gerry really felt the premature death of her dad. But she said it also made her tough.
Gerry's mother was a remarkable woman. On her own, she made sure Gerry and her brother Carl had a good education. She sent them to high school and college by crocheting beads on gowns.
Gerry was grounded in family and faith. She believed in hard work, sticking together, and going to school and church. And never forgetting where you came from. Her faith came from the beatitudes - hunger and thirst after the righteousness.
Even after Gerry married John Zaccaro, she remained a "Ferraro" in honor of her mother.
I came to Congress two years before Gerry. There were only 17 women in Congress at the time -- women like Barbara Jordan, Shirley Chisholm, Elizabeth Holtzman. We became friends. We were the early birds. We weren't afraid to ruffle feathers.
Gerry was a powerhouse. Gerry was smart and savvy. She led from the head and from the heart. For her, it was all about her constituents who counted on her to fight for them. The old lady trying to get her social security check. The vet who needed his disability benefits. The small business guy who wanted to expand beyond his father's shop. The kid from a blue collar family who wanted to go to college. She was a fighter. They were who she was fighting for.
I'll never forget when Walter Mondale chose Gerry for his running mate in at the Democratic National Convention in 1984. She became our first woman Vice Presidential candidate. It sent shock waves through the country. The entire nation was proud that we had broken this barrier. It changed the way we thought of ourselves. Women began looking at themselves in a new way. They would say - she's not that much older than me. She's not that different than me. She definitely has worked hard. But she did it. Maybe I can do it too.
I was so proud of her. So proud of the Democrats. And so honored to second her nomination at the Democratic Convention that August. It was electric. The male delegates had given their tickets to their female alternates so they could witness this grand moment in history. Ten thousand people packed the auditorium, including lots of children. So many people there never thought they'd live to see the day we'd have a woman candidate for vice president.
After the campaign -- I told her, "Gerry -- it's kind of like breaking the sound barrier for the first time. You know, those guys in those planes starting to get to Mach 1 and then they got to Mach 2, or whatever it is they do to break the barrier. We got shaken up and pushed and pulled in a lot of directions just like they did. We didn't do it, but it's only the first time out."
Geraldine Ferraro cracked the marble ceiling. She paved the way for women like Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi. Someday, a woman will become President of the United States -- and Geraldine Ferraro paved the way. But she also paved the way for women in their day-to-day lives.
Gerry's nomination was a milestone for women in the United States but it was only one facet of her lifetime of contributions. She was the daughter of immigrants who lived the American dream and succeeded at a time and a place when women were frequently overlooked and undervalued. All along the way, as a public servant, businesswoman, teacher author and journalist, Gerry led by example and gave back in countless ways.
Her husband John Zaccaro and her children and grandchildren are in my thoughts and prayers.
In her acceptance speech at that convention in 1984, Gerry said that "Every one of us is given the gift of life, and what a strange gift it is. If it is preserved jealously and selfishly, it impoverishes and saddens. But if it is spent for others, it enriches and beautifies."
My dear friend Geraldine Ferraro did indeed live a beautiful and compelling life. The torch is once again passed to a new generation who must now continue the fight.
TexasBlue
Re: Geraldine Ferraro Dies at 75
by kronos Sat Mar 26, 2011 1:24 pm
'84 is the first election I remember.
The author forgets 1972. Nixon won 49 states then, too. Reagan grabbed more electoral votes than Nixon, but Nixon won the popular vote by the largest margin in US history.
In the end, Reagan won 49 of the 50 states, the largest landslide since Franklin D. Roosevelt's first re-election, in 1936 over Alf Landon.
The author forgets 1972. Nixon won 49 states then, too. Reagan grabbed more electoral votes than Nixon, but Nixon won the popular vote by the largest margin in US history.
kronos
Re: Geraldine Ferraro Dies at 75
by TexasBlue Sat Mar 26, 2011 3:03 pm
The greatest modern landslides in the United States Presidential elections
* 1920 - the greatest percentage point margin in the popular vote (Harding 60.3% to Cox 34.1%).
* 1936 - the greatest electoral votes difference between winner and opponent (Roosevelt 523 to Landon 8).
* 1964 - the highest percentage for winner (Lyndon Johnson 61.1%).
* 1984 - the highest number of electoral votes (Reagan 525).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_landslide_victories#United_States
* 1920 - the greatest percentage point margin in the popular vote (Harding 60.3% to Cox 34.1%).
* 1936 - the greatest electoral votes difference between winner and opponent (Roosevelt 523 to Landon 8).
* 1964 - the highest percentage for winner (Lyndon Johnson 61.1%).
* 1984 - the highest number of electoral votes (Reagan 525).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_landslide_victories#United_States
TexasBlue
Re: Geraldine Ferraro Dies at 75
by kronos Sat Mar 26, 2011 3:14 pm
TexasBlue wrote:The greatest modern landslides in the United States Presidential elections
* 1920 - the greatest percentage point margin in the popular vote (Harding 60.3% to Cox 34.1%).
* 1936 - the greatest electoral votes difference between winner and opponent (Roosevelt 523 to Landon 8).
* 1964 - the highest percentage for winner (Lyndon Johnson 61.1%).
* 1984 - the highest number of electoral votes (Reagan 525).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_landslide_victories#United_States
Wat?!
Why isn't 1972 listed?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1972
Nixon had a 23.2 percentage point margin of victory in the popular vote, the fourth largest in presidential election history. He received almost 18 million more popular votes than McGovern—the widest margin of any U.S. presidential election.
I'm guessing this means that Nixon's victory was the widest margin in absolute numbers, not percentage points. A function of the much larger population in 1972 than in 1920.
1920 surprised me. I didn't realize that one was considered a landslide. Look at the map:
Cox swept the South, except for Tennessee. Harding won "only" 37 states--but got 60.3% of the popular vote? WTF? The disconnect between the popular vote and the electoral vote for that election is amazing.
kronos
Re: Geraldine Ferraro Dies at 75
by TexasBlue Sat Mar 26, 2011 3:24 pm
kronos wrote:The disconnect between the popular vote and the electoral vote for that election is amazing.
Yeah, the EC is a fun one to figure out at times. The media made hay about Obama's victory over McCain yet the percentage threshold wasn't all that. Just another election was all.
TexasBlue
Re: Geraldine Ferraro Dies at 75
by kronos Sat Mar 26, 2011 3:28 pm
Just noticed something:
Nixon got 60.7% of the popular vote, compared with Hardings 60.3%.
McGovern got 37.5% of the vote. Cox got 34.1%.
This doesn't add up.
Fun Fact: 1972 also saw John Hospers, first-ever Libertarian candidate, win exactly one (1) electoral vote.
Nixon got 60.7% of the popular vote, compared with Hardings 60.3%.
McGovern got 37.5% of the vote. Cox got 34.1%.
This doesn't add up.
Fun Fact: 1972 also saw John Hospers, first-ever Libertarian candidate, win exactly one (1) electoral vote.
kronos
Re: Geraldine Ferraro Dies at 75
by kronos Sat Mar 26, 2011 3:29 pm
TexasBlue wrote:kronos wrote:The disconnect between the popular vote and the electoral vote for that election is amazing.
Yeah, the EC is a fun one to figure out at times. The media made hay about Obama's victory over McCain yet the percentage threshold wasn't all that. Just another election was all.
Apparently, it's technically possible to win with 25% of the popular vote.
kronos
Re: Geraldine Ferraro Dies at 75
by TexasBlue Sat Mar 26, 2011 3:31 pm
Many people don't like the EC. I do. People say their vote doesn't count, so they don't vote. Their vote does count. Each state's tally is by poplar vote, then it's tallied into the EC by the EC Votes. Pretty simple philosophy.
TexasBlue
Re: Geraldine Ferraro Dies at 75
by TexasBlue Sat Mar 26, 2011 3:32 pm
kronos wrote:TexasBlue wrote:kronos wrote:The disconnect between the popular vote and the electoral vote for that election is amazing.
Yeah, the EC is a fun one to figure out at times. The media made hay about Obama's victory over McCain yet the percentage threshold wasn't all that. Just another election was all.
Apparently, it's technically possible to win with 25% of the popular vote.
Bush did in 2000.
TexasBlue
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