The Kennedy example is dated, and was always a poor choice. The drug companies have poisoned most minds against him for threatening the sacred status of anything called a vaccine.
Kennedy ran on a wide variety of issues. Vaccines were a tiny portion of his overall message. When he abandoned his campaign was polling at 28% of the voting public. That's quite amazing for an independent presidential candidate,
Nor did I say you said he was wrong. My point is that in terms of independent candidacy, his campaign made it clear that the voting public wasn't all D and R, that they would take an outlier seriously. I think if he'd stayed in the race, there was a good chance he would have won. Of course, a big factor was the Kennedy brand.
The Kennedy example is dated, and was always a poor choice. The drug companies have poisoned most minds against him for threatening the sacred status of anything called a vaccine.
Kennedy ran on a wide variety of issues. Vaccines were a tiny portion of his overall message. When he abandoned his campaign was polling at 28% of the voting public. That's quite amazing for an independent presidential candidate,
I didn't say he was wrong, or a poor candidate overall, just that the drug pushers had convinced the great majority to dismiss him automatically.
Nor did I say you said he was wrong. My point is that in terms of independent candidacy, his campaign made it clear that the voting public wasn't all D and R, that they would take an outlier seriously. I think if he'd stayed in the race, there was a good chance he would have won. Of course, a big factor was the Kennedy brand.