lmao NYT Columnists are jumping ship: Nick Kristof - "President Biden, I've seen enough" (www.mediaite.com)

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Get wrecked shitlibs

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[-] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago

Former United States Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo, 1920 candidate James Cox and Henry Ford were the main candidates. Though McAdoo won a vast majority of states, and well more than half of the popular vote, in those twelve states that held primary elections, it meant little to his performance nationwide. Once at the convention, the party was deadlocked for 102 straight ballots, before dark horse candidate John W. Davis, (who wasn't even a formal candidate when he arrived at the convention) was chosen on the 103rd ballot. Davis went on to lose the election to the Republican candidate, President Calvin Coolidge.

Exactly 100 years ago

[-] RION@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

Bro's name was McAdoo

[-] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

At the 1924 Democratic National Convention, McAdoo received the support of the Ku Klux Klan. He refused to answer questions on if he was a member of the KKK and he did not repudiate the KKK causing the Catholic vote to turn against him. McAdoo defeated Oscar Underwood, who was an opponent of the Ku Klux Klan and Prohibition, in the Georgia primary and split the Alabama delegation.