Washington state has just joined Ohio and Alabama in signifying through elections officials that President Joe Biden could be left off their general election ballots.
“The primary chose a set of unpledged Democratic electors.[3] by a margin of five-to-one,[4] Under Wallace’s guidance, the Alabama Democratic Party placed this slate of unpledged Democratic electors on the ballot,[5][6] against the advice of some legal scholars,[7] but after planning to run for president himself (as he would do in 1968), decided against this in July. Johnson was the third winning president-elect to not appear on the ballot in Alabama, after Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and Harry S. Truman in 1948.”
There’s Biden’s election line… “I’m joining a short list of Presidents removed from the ballot in Alabama, Lincoln, Truman, Johnson, and me…”
“You have to go all the way back to 1964 to find a state that kept a major party presidential candidate off the ballot”
Well, shit, now I have to find out what happened in 1964…
Fucking Alabama and George Wallace… Removed Johnson from the ballot.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_United_States_presidential_election_in_Alabama
“The primary chose a set of unpledged Democratic electors.[3] by a margin of five-to-one,[4] Under Wallace’s guidance, the Alabama Democratic Party placed this slate of unpledged Democratic electors on the ballot,[5][6] against the advice of some legal scholars,[7] but after planning to run for president himself (as he would do in 1968), decided against this in July. Johnson was the third winning president-elect to not appear on the ballot in Alabama, after Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and Harry S. Truman in 1948.”
There’s Biden’s election line… “I’m joining a short list of Presidents removed from the ballot in Alabama, Lincoln, Truman, Johnson, and me…”