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U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote :
Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror

by Peter Grose, Special to the New York Times (9/4/1967: p. 2)

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3-- United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting.

According to reports from Saigon, 83 per cent of the 5.85 million registered voters cast their ballots yesterday. Many of them risked reprisals threatened by the Vietcong.

The size of the popular vote and the inability of the Vietcong to destroy the election machinery were the two salient facts in a preliminary assessment of the nation election based on the incomplete returns reaching here.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/31/2335/87390
I found the actual NYT article but it was pay per view.

And over in Iraq - More folks (larger percentage) voted over the weekend then last Nov. in the last US Presidential Election. (The so called most important election in America in the last century with a riled-up electorate.)

I also think we should do the purple ink thing above when we vote here. Sure would clamp down on a lot of voter fraud. Wonder why we hadn't thought of that before.

Did you overlook the euphoria of the NYT article from 9/4//67? Sounds familiar. Does history repeat itself?
Hopefully, Iraq will not drag on for several more years with thousands of more American deaths as happened in Vietnam after the hopeful election of 1967.

Bluevelvet wrote:Did you overlook the euphoria of the NYT article from 9/4//67? Sounds familiar. Does history repeat itself?
Hopefully, Iraq will not drag on for several more years with thousands of more American deaths as happened in Vietnam after the hopeful election of 1967.

More gloom and doom Bluevelvet? Say it ain't so. You starting sound like Teddy Kennedy. Surely you aren't proposing that we "cut and run" from the situation.

P.S. There is no comparison between Iraq and Vietnam.

Some people learn from history. Some people never learn.