Um, LBJ/Nixon never occurred.
Yup, it was nixon v humphrey and nixon did not clean humphrey’s clock, the election was fairly close. Nixon cleaned McGovern’s clock in 72.
Because LBJ bowed out.
But Ubama doesn't have that much dignity.
Um, LBJ/Nixon never occurred.I can't actually tell if the author of the article is aware of this at all.
LBJ was so bad he he didn’t seek his Party’s nomination and his VP Hubert H. Humphrey ran in his place (read = Hitlery). A Democratic Gov. George Wallace ran as a 3rd Party and Nixon held on as Humphrey surged to bring it within 1%. 4 years later I was working for McGovern against Nixon and Wallace was running again, till they pumped 5 bullets into him. They could have called that election right there and then. Palin/Rubio will march across this country in ‘12 like a hot knife through warm butter.
The Democrats hated Nixon long before his landslide win in 1972...going back to his days as Congressman when he took Whittaker Chambers' side in the Alger Hiss case. He was just as bad as Senator Joseph McCarthy in their eyes. Then there was the 1950 Senate race against the "Pink Lady."
He means the transition from one President to another and one period to another -- Carter / Reagan compared to LBJ / Nixon. I disagree with his assertion. Obama is nothing like LBJ who had balls and took leaks on teh front lawn while being interviewed. Obama is much more like Carter
LBJ quit rather than run again and gave us Nixon. Nixon was really running against LBG and it didn’t really matter at all who the nominal Democrat candidate was. He was just a stand-in for LBJ.