The 2016 Election, Taken with a Swig of History
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
Bruce Carlson
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2016
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | A story from Vice President Thomas Marshall, Vice President under Wilson, relating to the |
| 0:38.2 | 1916 election. |
| 0:41.5 | There is an ancient story told in Indiana of the good old days when ballots were |
| 0:45.9 | hocked around the election precinct and votes were purchased with impunity. |
| 0:50.7 | A citizen with four boys came to the polling place. |
| 0:55.0 | They stood around most of the day without voting, |
| 0:58.0 | waiting for the price of ballots to go up. |
| 1:01.0 | They finally agreed to vote the Democratic ticket for $10. |
| 1:07.0 | After receiving the money, they still delayed. |
| 1:10.0 | And as the contest waxed warmer, the Republicans paid them $25 for their votes. |
| 1:16.0 | Then they voted. |
| 1:18.0 | On being uprated by the Democrat who had originally bought them, the old man replied. |
| 1:25.0 | Well, we voted the Democratic ticket anyway. |
| 1:30.0 | And on being asked how that was, he said that the family, after due consultation, thought they ought to vote the Democratic ticket. |
| 1:40.0 | It being the less corruptor of the two. I'm going to do. Oh, Oh, you can always count on Thomas Marshall for a good joke. Indiana really has become, the same way Ohio is the birthplace of |
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