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GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

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Election Shenanigans in the Old Days

There was plenty of election shenanigans in the old days. And you fight by means legal and illegal, but I get a sense that the berm tactic of saying this current incumbent is illegitimate seems newer than just a little bit of shenanigans in the election. Well, think about this 1896 majority of the eligible voters in the state of Mississippi, Louisiana and South Carolina are black men who are overwhelming. The best that out of those three states that William McKinley can get is 24% of the vote in in Louisiana in Mississippi were 60% nearly 60%. He gets 6% of the votes. So you know, there may be you know, the level of shenanigans may have been slightly higher than it is

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