"If you think the United States could never elect an Adolf Hitler to power, note that David Duke would have become governor of Louisiana if it had just been up to the white voters in that state." Robert Altemeyer
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Bullshit....this clown could not possibly have determined the number of voters that were white, black or green and how they voted or who they voted for....its complete bullshit just to rial up the assholes like midcan into believing what they can't possibly prove....
Its typical of the kind of nonsense the left wingers will claim to show bias and racism where none exists.
You are missing the point, you see Hitler from today, but many saw him as something other than what he was. Same with David Duke, Hitler didn't run on what he wanted to do, he ran on what the thought the Germans believed and wanted to hear. All politicians do that, but Duke was a bad apple and eventually shown to be one. Still he won a great many votes.
"In 1988 he ran in several Democratic Presidential campaigns, winning no primaries and gaining substantial votes only in the South, but the campaign was given widespread media coverage, which made Duke famous. In 1989 he switched parties and was elected to the Louisiana House as a Republican. In 1990 he ran for the US Senate, receiving 44% of the vote against the Democratic incumbent, J. Bennett Johnston. In his 1991 campaign for Louisiana Governor, he received 39% of the vote, losing to Edwin Edwards. In 1996, when Johnson retired from the Senate, Duke ran in a crowded field, garnering about 11.5% as Democrat Mary Landrieu was elected. In 1999 he ran for US Congress, getting 19% of the vote as Republican David Vitter defeated fellow Republican and former Governor David C. Treen."
http://www.nndb.com/people/210/000024138/
"It appeared for a while that Duke might actually get elected governor. He made the runoff against Edwin Edwards, who, though he had not yet been convicted of anything, was widely regarded as hopelessly corrupt.
Edwards had to win if Louisiana were to avoid sinking into chaos and becoming a pariah. But, as the election approached, the polls gave Duke a genuine shot at winning....
Duke's own vanity did him in, too. He always fancied himself an intellectual with great powers of persuasion, and tended to assume that all white gentiles secretly agreed with his views."
http://blog.nola.com/jamesgill/2009/09/james_gill_republican_crusader.html
"When David Duke was running for governor of Louisiana, he always had a country or bluegrass band on the platform with him, in all the photographs I saw. That band always had a guitar picker and a banjo player. I always had the fantasy of pulling David Duke aside and telling him "Well, Dave, the guitar was invented by Spanish-speakin Arabs, and, well, as for the banjo, now, you're probably gonna want to sit down and let me pour you a really stiff drink before I tell you..." Ken Burch
