His vote total was a bit higher in 1920 (913,693), but that was only 3.4% of the total. That was the first Presidential election in which women could vote, hence the much larger electorate. Oh, did I mention that he campaigned from prison in that election?
I know this is unlikely to succeed internationally, but here in the a-historical US there is going to be an ongoing effort to make Mandela's corpse into a capitalist ideological monkey.
Don't be silly. It's not "because socialism". It's because "America!". Mandela was a Socialist too (possibly even a communist) but the reason we love Mandela is that he fought an oppressive regime in a foreign country. We don't hear about Debs because he fought against an oppressive regime here in the USA.
In 1912, he received just over 900,000 votes (nearly 6% of the popular vote) for President.
His vote total was a bit higher in 1920 (913,693), but that was only 3.4% of the total. That was the first Presidential election in which women could vote, hence the much larger electorate. Oh, did I mention that he campaigned from prison in that election?
I know this is unlikely to succeed internationally, but here in the a-historical US there is going to be an ongoing effort to make Mandela's corpse into a capitalist ideological monkey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._D…