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And yes, it’s the worst rating in the history of this polling.

And I think it’s because Bush has shown such little leadership in the past couple years. Sure, he made some bold moves in Iraq, but as that was revealed to be ill-fated at best, the sentiment has shifted and stayed that way.

Why?

Because there’s no way they’ll match history…

With the final national polls settling around Obama +7, I realized that I lacked a good sense of historical context for that number.

Turns out it’s about the margin of George H.W. Bush’s 1988 win against Michael Dukakis: 53.4% to 45.6%.

Many Democrats saw the unruly 1968 convention in Chicago as one of the reasons they lost the presidential election to Richard Nixon that year.

That defeat and a landslide loss four years later led the Democrats to change the way they approached conventions.

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The Obama campaign has promised to contest all 50 states. Does that mean he plans to visit all 50? No, Obama has wisely chosen to say “contest” not “visit.” That is because he has learned an important lesson from the last President to try a 50-state campaign — Richard Nixon.

In 1960, Richard Nixon made even a better promise.

Nixon promised to visit all 50 states. He made that vow during his acceptance speech at the Republican Convention.

Anne Armstrong, a longtime powerful Republican who served as U.S. ambassador to Great Britain as well as counselor to presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, died after a bout with...

Yoko Ono is going to court over John Lennon's legacy. She is suing Ray Thomas of World Wide Video — which has almost 10 hours of videotapes of Lennon smoking pot and plotting to slip LSD to Richard Nixon — and the makers of the documentary Expelled, who used part of the song "Imagine."

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Former adviser to Richard Nixon Egil "Bud" Krogh urged an audience Monday to maintain their own ethical standards regardless of external pressures and conflicting opinions when making important decisions.

He spoke as part of a conference hosted by the McCombs School of Business.