cet9280 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Democrats and Republicans actually fighting over who is the real liberal? What a great time that was.

niuchemist (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Can you imagine how SNL would parody him?

dudemantwo (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Wendell Wilkie liked the ladies...

ciraldofan (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Today's wild-eyed radical socialist Republican Party? Socialist give money to the have-nots, the poor folks. I think you mean wild-eyed Fascist party. Fascism is govenment married to the Corporations and Militarism. Fascists represent the Military-Industrial Complex Ike warned us about.

billyguns2 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

My goodness, Willkie wouldn't be welcome in today's wild-eyed radical socialist Republican Party!

billyguns2 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Yes, it was a tragedy that Willkie was denied election in 1940, but he did receive more popular votes than any other losing candidate up to that time. All great progress was created by liberal thought, but now "liberal" has become a dirty word; better to be an uneducated, uninterested, and a willing victim to tyrannical government these days. McCain will win, 305 to 233 electoral votes.

wollam11 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

My bad, France was June 1940. The USSR was June 1941.

wollam11 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

The Germans turned on the Soviets in June 1940. The war was raging by the time of the elections.

talzara (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Battles taking place outside Moscow and Stalingrad? In 1940?! At the time, the Soviet Union was still allied with Germany.

talzara (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

We did have movie theaters in 1940, you know. 90 million movie tickets sold in America each week.Old-fashioned technology is amazingly versatile. To further blow your mind, look up three-strip Technicolor. That's how you shoot color movies on black-and-white film (only the prints were in color).