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Originally posted by PA_SVX
Bush 100% Then Edwards and Kerry #3. Pretty cool. As for clinton, he was listed as "Federal Wanted" for not answering his lottory number for the draft. After being listed that for 6 months he became a fugitive of justice under federal law. He was later pardoned by then President Carter in 1977 as a political favor to the DNC. So in 100% TRUE factual info, clinton was the only federal fellon to be elected President.
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here's a quote from a PBS archived source:
"Clinton has long acknowledged his opposition to the Vietnam war. As a Rhodes scholar in England, he helped organize an anti - war protest in November of 1969. But he has also said that it was his doubts about the morality of the war and the Selective Service system that led him to abandon the ROTC idea and to subject himself to a draft lottery. Only the luck of the draw - a high lottery number - kept him out."
Not sure where your data comes from...plus I was under the impression that a conviction was needed to be a felon.
BTW, Carter's most controversial pardon was of the WaterGate felon G Gordon Liddy.