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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans have not won a US presidential election without a Bush or Nixon on the ticket since 1928
Tweeted a few hours ago by Reuters editor Jamie McGeever:
https://twitter.com/ReutersJamie/status/265757457165463552
Jamie McGeever
@ReutersJamie
Unbelievable, but true: Republicans have not won a US presidential election without a Bush or Nixon on the ticket since 1928.
4:08 AM - 6 Nov 12
OhZone
(3,212 posts)How weird!
Check it here -
http://americanhistory.about.com/library/charts/blchartpresidents.htm
Ford was Pres but only because Nixon resigned.
meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)Let's hope we don't break the streak with a president Rmoney
superpatriotman
(6,249 posts)Can't wait to dump this gem on some mouth-breather in the voting line today. Thanks!
wishlist
(2,795 posts)Repubs have to go more to the middle and appeal more to minorities to win in 2016. I would say Marco Rubio for VP except he's from Florida.
intheflow
(28,476 posts)KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)ETA: -- Oh I get it...
where's my coffee?....
TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)gordianot
(15,238 posts)lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)Why I am a Democrat, reason 2012.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)Go away Romney/Ryan .. far, far away!
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)Hand picked and groomed by Prescott, then mentored HW through the Eisenhower years. Nixon might as well have been a Bush.
highplainsdem
(49,001 posts)upi402
(16,854 posts)It was inaudible here.
Suji to Seoul
(2,035 posts)He's a scumpile too!
jmondine
(1,649 posts)Sorry. Couldn't resist. Had to go there.
starroute
(12,977 posts)As well as with foreign sources of funding and support -- the China Lobby in Nixon's case, the Saudis for Bush.
Seems like if you're going to steal elections in this country, you need the help of the pros.
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)from Tricky Dick.
starroute
(12,977 posts)I don't have a solid source to cite on this, but I keep running into hints that Nixon took a particular interest in covert operations when he was vice president and had his own long-standing relationship with CIA director Allen Dulles. During the final years of Eisenhower's presidency, in particular, it appears that Ike was often out of the loop and that Nixon knew things he did not. It's definitely true that Ike felt there were things going on behind his back -- which is why he warned against the military-industrial complex when he left office.
During the Kennedy years, Nixon appears to have developed close connections with the more hawkish wing of the CIA, anti-Castro Cuban exiles -- both of which show up during Watergate -- and probably the Mafia.
Nixon got generous contributions from the China Lobby starting when he ran for the Senate in 1950 -- and it was the China Lobby that pulled off the first "October Surprise" in 1968, sabotaging the Paris Peace Talks to help get Nixon elected.
All in all, it seems that Nixon wasn't just a crooked politician who got caught. He was very deep in covert associations and in the application of CIA methodology to stealing US elections.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)of the Trickster. He was the point man for it.
Anna Chennault - a Chinese woman married to Gen. Claire Chennault - was Nixon's back channel that scuttled the peace talks LBJ wanted to start in late 1968. She was the conduit that told the utterly corrupt SVN president Thieu to stonewall LBJ because he'd get "a better deal" after Nixon was elected.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)marmar
(77,081 posts)nt
Dem_4_Life
(1,765 posts)Can't wait to tell other people that today.
LeftInTX
(25,369 posts)Reagan - 8
HW - 4
Dudya - 8
Total = 20/32
62.5% of the last 32 years
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Kablooie
(18,634 posts)Sgent
(5,857 posts)wickerwoman
(5,662 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)dictatorships; ruined economies---AND 9/11/01.
highplainsdem
(49,001 posts)reformist2
(9,841 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)Or vice versa, which would have been more likely probably.
JI7
(89,252 posts)and that was 49 to 51 with it coming down to one state.
92, 96 , and 08 were clear wins for Dems.