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« on: June 03, 2019, 06:17:45 PM »

1960: Kennedy
1964: Clearly Johnson
1968: Humphrey
1972 : Nixon
1976: Carter
1980: Reagan
1984: Reagan
1988: Even
1992: Clinton
1996: Clinton
2000: Even
2004 : Kerry
2008: Clearly Obama
2012: Clearly Obama
2016: Hillary
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OSR stands with Israel
Computer89
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E: 3.42, S: 2.61

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« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2019, 10:25:38 PM »

1960: JFK without a doubt
1968: Humphrey (which is prob why it ended up being so close)
1972: Nixon

Contrary to the history that has now totally been re-written. The press were big fans of Nixon in his 60', 68', and 72' election bids:

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In 1960, Nixon was endorsed over Kennedy by seventy-eight per cent of the country’s newspapers that took a position on the election; in 1968, Nixon got eighty per cent of whatever editorial support was expressed; and in 1972 he got ninety-three per cent. (Like Kennedy, Nixon has probably meant to criticize certain powerful Eastern newspapers that he feels have not been sympathetic to him, but, unlike Kennedy, he has publicly and repeatedly attacked “the press” and “the media,” without naming the newspapers and columnists and network commentators he feels have been unfair, and so has left the impression in the public mind that the press as a whole cannot be trusted.) And President Nixon was also treated with uncommon charity by the press after he took office.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1973/10/01/the-presidency-and-the-press

The right-wing has been bitching about the media (which is largely favorable to them anyway) since forever.

Truth is that New Deal Democrats largely hated the press and vice versa. FDR absolutely hated the press and relentlessly attacked them


Print media and TV media are two separate things
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