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Has a parties presidential candidate ever died during a campaign?
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:46 pm
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:46 pm
I don't know of a case but there have been many elections in history. I don't consider it likely that Joe's body will giving out before his mind, but if he goes even more mentally vegetative, it will functionally be as though he had died. Does Pelosi and Schumer just pick a new candidate at a convention? When is the last day to legally declare for office?
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Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:47 pm to teebro
Robert Kennedy was close to being this
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:48 pm to teebro
RFK was going to be dem nominee in 1968
Does that count?
Does that count?
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:49 pm to teebro
With Covid-19 there is a better than average chance that one or both candidates could die this election season.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:50 pm to TrueTiger
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With Covid-19 there is a better than average chance that one or both candidates could die this election season.
Or while in office.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:52 pm to OleWar
Yep, Horace Greeley died between the election and the electoral college meeting.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:52 pm to TrueTiger
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This post was edited on 11/17/21 at 10:53 am
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:53 pm to teebro
Are you trying to give sHitlary ideas?
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:55 pm to puse01
Can you imagine the bag of meds Joe Biden's wife dumps out on Biden's doctors desk?
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:58 pm to MMauler
She lives in attack mode.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 11:08 pm to teebro
FDR was almost dead when he was re-elected in November 1944.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 11:13 pm to teebro
This board had Hillary pegged as dead of some illness long before the election.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 11:16 pm to beachdude
Most didn't even know he paralyzed or was in a wheelchair.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 11:17 pm to TrueTiger
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With Covid-19 there is a better than average chance that one or both candidates could die this election season.
There is zero chance of this happening.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 11:18 pm to teebro
There is an early '70s novel called Dark Horse by Fletcher Knebel based on this premise
Nominee dies a few weeks before election, minor politician takes his place and is thrown to the wolves
Nominee dies a few weeks before election, minor politician takes his place and is thrown to the wolves
Posted on 7/1/20 at 11:23 pm to Twenty 49
I still believe that Bill came close to getting knocked off in 2016. Hillary had to have been tempted to go for the sympathy "Bill is Dead" bump vote. I think she would have done it but, unlike Trump, she foolishly surrounded herself with 'advisers' who told her what she wanted to hear, so she thought she had already won.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 11:29 pm to teebro
quote:I'm thinking Bill tends to his own safety fairly well. If something happens to him, she goes down about 3 seconds later. That's probably been in place for decades
I still believe that Bill came close to getting knocked off in 2016. Hillary had to have been tempted to go for the sympathy "Bill is Dead" bump vote. I think she would have done it but, unlike Trump, she foolishly surrounded herself with 'advisers' who told her what she wanted to hear, so she thought she had already won.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 11:30 pm to teebro
Yes, I have seen Biden die many times on TV. No one had the decency to bury him.
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