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2016 Postmortem

buzzman

(60 posts) Fri Nov 9, 2012, 02:12 PM Nov 2012

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Since Roosevelt, No GOP Presidential Campaign Has Won Vote Without a Bush or Nixon on Ticket

http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17632-since-roosevelt-no-gop-presidential-campaign-has-won-vote-without-a-bush-or-nixon-on-ticket-jeb-bush-2016-ugh

I read this political trivia the other day and was in disbelief for a moment: no Republican presidential campaign has won an election since Roosevelt without a Bush or Nixon on the ticket.

Then I started backtracking and it's true.

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Since Roosevelt, No GOP Presidential Campaign Has Won Vote Without a Bush or Nixon on Ticket (Original Post) buzzman Nov 2012 OP

You have to go back 84 years for the last GOP ticket without a Nixon or a Bush that won RomneyLies Nov 2012 #1

OUCH, watch out for Jeb in 2016. RomneyLies Nov 2012 #2

Quick kill off all the Nixon's and Bush's LiberalFighter Nov 2012 #3

Here's another weird fact RomneyLies Nov 2012 #4

RomneyLies

(3,333 posts)

1. You have to go back 84 years for the last GOP ticket without a Nixon or a Bush that won

Reply to buzzman (Original post)

Fri Nov 9, 2012, 02:21 PM

Nov 2012

Hoover/Curtis, 1928.

RomneyLies

(3,333 posts)

2. OUCH, watch out for Jeb in 2016.

Reply to buzzman (Original post)

Fri Nov 9, 2012, 02:23 PM

Nov 2012

There's a slew of GHW's grandchildren who are of age to start seeking office, too. George P. just filed to get on the Texas State ballot.

LiberalFighter

(51,005 posts)

3. Quick kill off all the Nixon's and Bush's

Reply to buzzman (Original post)

Fri Nov 9, 2012, 02:24 PM

Nov 2012

RomneyLies

(3,333 posts)

4. Here's another weird fact

Reply to buzzman (Original post)

Fri Nov 9, 2012, 02:47 PM

Nov 2012

Romney/Ryan was the first GOP ticket without a Bush or a Dole since Nixon/Agnew in 1972.

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