Kos Revises History

Over at the Daily Kos, himself posts Let's have some fun in Michigan, an appeal for Democrats to vote from Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Michigan on Tuesday, January 15th, hoping to keep him in the race because:


...the more Republican candidates we have fighting it out, trashing each other with negative ads and spending tons of money, the better it is for us.

Kos justifies this tactic by pointing out that Michigan Republicans pulled a similar dirty trick in 1972 to vote for segregationist Democrat George Wallace, noting that Republicans' made up a third of Wallace's vote total.


In 1972, Republican voters in Michigan decided to make a little mischief, crossing over to vote in the open Democratic primary and voting for segregationist Democrat George Wallace, seriously embarrassing the state's Democrats. In fact, a third of the voters (PDF) in the Democratic primary were Republican crossover votes.

But that isn't the whole story, and Kos purposefully leaves out the nasty truth: even without a single Republican vote, segregationist Wallace would have still won handily in 1972 Michigan, by more than 111,000 votes.

Michigan's apparently segregationist Democratic mainstream gave him at least 538,953 votes (I subtracted 1/3 of Wallace' total, as if all Republicans added to Wallace's vote total to arrive at that figure, even though 1/3 of the Republican cross-overs actually voted for McGovern. This figure is heavily biased in favor of his flawed argument, and he still loses), 111,259 more than also-ran George McGovern's 425,694 according to Kos' own source.

Kos can rightly claim that Republicans crossed over in 1972. He just can't credibly claim they affected the outcome.

Posted by: Confederate Yankee at 10:32 AM

Comments

1 Sometimes they may it too easy.

Posted by: Dan Irving at January 11, 2008 10:44 AM (zw8QA)

2 Kos is trying to look like he's leading things. A lot of Michiganders will vote for Mitt. His daddy did a pretty fair job as Michigan's Governor and Mitt didn't do so bad as Governor of another state.

So Mitt will get votes and Kos can preen.

Posted by: Peter at January 11, 2008 11:54 AM (U3lrW)

3 Good news for Thompson AND Romney...
http://www.gopusa.com/theloft/?p=639

For Romney...
http://www.redstate.com/blogs/thunder/2008/jan/10/can_romney_take_2nd_place_all_the_way_to_the_nomination#comment-629014

Posted by: Cory at January 11, 2008 01:01 PM (VqXuo)

4 You mean a democrat lied?? I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell ya!

Posted by: Capitalist Infidel at January 11, 2008 01:09 PM (Lgw9b)

5 Glad to see that degree from Cal Berkeley is working for Kos.

Posted by: Mockin'bird at January 11, 2008 04:40 PM (JyjXB)

6 Well, that spells the end of the Romney campaign. If memory serves, every single candidate that Kos has encouraged people to vote for has lost.

A Kos endorsement seems to have a lot in common with the Kiss of Death.

Posted by: C-C-G at January 11, 2008 07:39 PM (F+vKR)

7 "Well, that spells the end of the Romney campaign. If memory serves, every single candidate that Kos has encouraged people to vote for has lost.

A Kos endorsement seems to have a lot in common with the Kiss of Death."

If that's the case, I'd encourage Kos to endorse each and every one of the Repug candidates. He'd be doing the world a great service

Posted by: Oliver at January 12, 2008 08:42 PM (W1+89)

8 Hush. If Kos wants to endorse the only decent Republican candidate in the race (Mr. McCain-Feingold / McCain-Kennedy / Gang of 14 surely doesn't count, and so far as I can tell neither Fred nor Rudy is campaigning there), I can't see why we should complain about that!

Posted by: A Guy at January 12, 2008 09:11 PM (KqaNf)

9 Why don't ya go over there and tell him that, Oliver? See how long it takes him to remove your comment and ban you.

Posted by: C-C-G at January 12, 2008 09:32 PM (F+vKR)






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