Parallels to 1998?

[trotsky]

I.e., the year of Ventura. *shudder*

I was reading this link from a post in GD regarding Trump's appeal: https://www.yahoo.com/politics/jimmy-the-bookie-handicaps-the-election-from-a-134408477.html

Which contained this quote:

“For years and years and years no one would even be talking about this stuff probably at least until the Super Tuesday thing,” Vaccaro said. “So for the first time maybe in our history we’ve got a lot of people saying, ‘I want to try to do something with my vote this year.’”

And in all fairness to Ventura, he has never (to my knowledge) said anything like the racist and bigoted crap flowing out of T.Rump. However that particular quote took me back to 1998 and Ventura's surprise victory. Similar situation - LOTS of people who hadn't voted previously, or didn't vote regularly, showed up to flock to the polls and overwhelm the vote for an unappealling Republican (Coleman) and a solid but wholly unspectacular DFLer (Skip).

Could such a thing happen at the national level? I know most of us laugh and think there's no way Trump would win a national election but I thought there was no way Ventura could win either.

[tularetom]

1. We didn't think Arnold Schickelgruber could be elected governor of CA either

So there you have it.

[trotsky]

2. Exactly. *gulp* n/t

[Person 2713]

3. I like Ventura but don't know much about him but I get that he was a wrestler out of nowhere win

Bedtime for Bonzo (who was a monkey ) actor was POTUS 2X but he was a governor first
Strange how voters go and trump is possible
It's obvious by polls people are looking for something out of the box

[dflprincess]

4. That election is an argument for ranked choice voting

Ventura only got about 35% of the vote. Over 60% of the voters wanted someone else.