Political Loss Quotes
Prior to Johnson’s civil rights efforts, the South virtually always voted for Democrats in all elections. The only political competition was for the Democratic Party Primaries. The term “Solid South” meant that it was solid for the Democratic Party. But after the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964, the racist whites who used to be Democrats switched and joined the genuine traditional conservative and created a Republican Southern majority that was as solid for the GOP as the Democrats had ever enjoyed.
Some things do not change in democratic politics.
Stimson had run for the New York Governor and had lost. Stimson had been offered by President Taft the job of Secretary of State, and asked TR’s advice as to whether to take it. Stimson became Secretary of State.
Bush took the job and was the only CIA director to have a good political career afterwards, becoming Vice President and then President.
When Richard Nixon resigned the presidency Gerald Ford became America's first president who had not been elected to national office.
Referring to the fact that unpledged delegates tipped the balance against him in several states where he had won the majority of delegates in the 1988 Democratic Presidential primary elections:
Ideology can easily take over within the losing party after a national defeat. Extremists in the party tend to blame the concern with moderation and the drift to the center as the reason for the defeat. While such has been the case with both parties, more often than not, the loser did not go far enough to the center for the voters at the time.
