The non-Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedys collectively backed President Biden on Thursday. Does it matter?
President Biden is surrounded by members of the Kennedy family at a campaign event in Philadelphia on Thursday. You are probably less familiar with the Gosar family, if you’re familiar at all. Their imprint on American politics is necessarily more modest than the Kennedys’, constituting one person who won election to the U.S. House. That person is Rep. Paul A. Gosar , and he won reelection to his seat despite, a weekly dive into the data behind the news.
The theory of the Biden endorsement, it seems, is that some portion of RFK Jr.'s support is derived from the positive associations engendered by his name. A super PAC backing Kennedy seemed to think that was a safe bet, running an ad during the Super Bowl thatJohn F. Kennedy’s 1960 campaign to promote his nephew’s this year.
If nostalgia is boosting Kennedy’s campaign, it isn’t boosting it much. A recent YouGov poll, conducted for the Economist,that only 3 percent of Americans backed Kennedy’s bid. There was not a significant difference in support by age.Beyond that there aren’t a lot of 1960 Kennedy votes left, that election does offer another important lesson. It was a remarkably close race, one in which small margins in some states likely made the difference.
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