Was it a coup when Mayor Daley found 450,000 democrat votes at the last minute for John Kennedy, determining the outcome of the 1960 election?
Not a coup, but clearly fraud.
Decent and civilized people sucked it up and accepted the certified result.
And Ohio too, in 1960.
As most know, many Republican professionals in 1960 urged Richard Nixon to contest Illinois and Ohio, given that the fraud was so blatant it was easy to prove.
However, Richard Nixon the statesman declined to do so, saying it would divide and embitter the country.
Yes, of course, that was mighty statesmanlike of Nixon to be that way, but now, more than fifty years later, one wonders.
It's probably true it would've divided the country, but at the same time, it would've exposed the gangrenous Democrat party machines for what they were, and driven them into extinction.
Lyndon Johnson was perhaps the last Democrat presidential candidate who honestly won election. There was probably machine fraud that padded his margin in 1964, but it only "padded," didn't cause him to win because the honest vote was enough.
