20: The rigged JFK election
Lateral with Tom Scott
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In 1946, the team running John F. Kennedy's local election campaign persuaded a janitor called Joe Russo to run against him. Even though he had no political experience, doesn't seem to be a disqualifier in this day and age. What did in 1946? But even then, like, surely that's what you want, right? If you are encouraging someone to run against your candidate, don't you want them to have no experience? You want to be like, well, you should run because you're terrible and will beat you. I feel like that's not a problem. And this is a local election as well. So it's not like there's high, high stakes here
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