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Junior Chimp
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« on: April 26, 2024, 04:18:38 PM »
Because he openly and repeatedly boasted he wanted Social Security privatized. That's why the map of Florida in 1960 is a virtual opposite of the 1964 one: the Panhandle Dixiecrats flipped toward Goldwater,  but it was cancelled out by the elderly communities swinging Democratic.
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