Joseph Cummins Quotes
Herbert Hoover versus Al Smith in 1928 was one of the dirtiest elections in American history.
Cummins, Joseph. Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises in U.S. Presidential Campaigns. Quirk Books, 2006.
Both President Nixon and Vice President Agnew attacked Democratic candidates' "creeping permissiveness" and labeled anti-war protesters as "thugs and hoodlums."
His older brother was running for Consul—the highest elected office of the Roman Empire. The Handbook, was his advice to his brother as to how to conduct his campaign.
Steinbeck had been approached by Democratic political operatives (not connected with JFK) to write a novel attacking Richard Nixon. See {629629}. “Swift” referred to Jonathan Swift, the great English Satirical Writer who was greatly admired but did not achieve any political objectives.
The Congress was in a hyper-partisan gridelock and was unable to pass most legislation.
They were voting on ignoring the fraudulent vote count in Dallas County, Alabama. The counter argument was that it would disenfranchise those honest voters of the country whose votes would not then be counted.
Msny critics agree with him observing that, with his rough and tumble campaign tactics, he made them that way.
The Republican Presidential Candidate in the Election of 2016, Donal;d Trump, when with only a few weeks to go before Election Day, and the polls indicated that he was substantially behind, began to give speeches like this one that included many statements that the Election was rigged against him. He presented no evidence at all, and even could not specify who was doing the rigging or how they were doing it. However, many of his followers, who tend to believe many political conspiracy theories, started to make plans for continual action after the election if Trump[ loses. For some unstable followers—all candidates for President have some—they were already planning methods of resisting if Hillary Clinton should win. To make matters worse Trump had encouraged his supporters to take extra legal action to prevent Hillary Clinton from destroying the country as they ave known it. He also announced that he would not necessarily accept the election results if Clinton won. He even threatened to have her jailed when he won the Presidency. Chertoff, a fellow Republican, was very familiar with unstable people and their oft times dangerous behavior to “protect” them, their family and the nation from some conspiracy or another. Chertoff (See Quotation 643701) and many other Republican leaders tried to persuade Clinton to refrain from such demography, but Trump was one of those people who tended not to listen to advisors or colleagues. He continued on his dangerous rhetorical path.
Joseph Cummins is an American author. He is the author of numerous books including; Anything for a vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots and October Surprises in U.S. Presidential Elections; Castaway: Lost and found in history; Turn around and run like hell, unconventional military strategies that worked; A novel called The Snow Train and A Bloody History of the World which won the 2010 Our History Project Gold Medal Award. He lives in Maplewood, New Jersey.
