Mike Pence Quotes

Harriman was the senior Democratic leader of the era. Every aspiring Democratic politician would make it his business to get to meet Harriman and try and get his endorsement. However, Carter was not a typical politician and when he decided to run for the Presidency, he had not even met many of the leading Democratic Party leaders. Harriman, a man of the old school, could not believe that anyone in the party who he did not know could possibly have the connections and the sophistication to win the presidency. However, Watergate had seared the American political soul and voters were not looking for a veteran, sophisticated politician. Nixon had been that.

This is not just a theoretical possibility. It has occurred several times. The latest was on the 1990 election where Gore got half a million more votes than George W. Bush, but Bush became President.

On that date, a few days before the election the FBI Director publicly announced that he was reopening the Investigation into possible wrongdoing of Ms. Clinon's use of provate emails. He had earlier cleared her of all criminal wrongdoing and and he claimed that they had found a new computer that had some e-mails that they had not not yet examined for possible criminal activity. In addition WikiLeaks published on the Internet thousands of private e-mails that the Russians had hacked from her campaign chairman and her comittee. The two things started moving her trend down so that she only one the popular vote by almsot 3 million votes and she needed more to overcome the electoral collage gave to rural and small states. Ironically, the FBI went throught the contents of the computer and after the election announced that there was nothing there that incriminated Ms. Clinton, and there was no criminal activity found in all the hacked e-mails. And the FBI Director was chastized by the Republican Justice Department after Donald Trump took office for improperly making pubic investigation details before there were any findings. The FBI Director was subsequently fired but this and otehr reasons were given as the reason.