Nobody Likes a Quitter

Political scientists say it’s much more typical for the candidate who is behind to concede an election rather than fight; when they contest the results they almost always fail. A lawsuit is a bad idea, says professor of government James Ceaser from the University of Virginia. “They didn’t do it in 1960,” he says, when there was a particularly close election between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon — Nixon conceded despite allegations of Democratic vote-fixing in Chicago. “Nixon decided he was going to be the statesman and not throw the country into that kind of crisis.” (Reuters) ...And there you have it: the leader in doing the honorable thing in the ultimate political argument is Richard Nixon.