Scary political trivia

Why Howard Laughed posed a very interesting and I would say meaningful trivia question which was originated by Mark Halperin at Time.





What year was the last U.S. presidential election that the Republican Party won without a Bush or Nixon on the ticket?


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The answer here: "1928, when Herbert Hoover won"
(answer added 10/22/08, since it looks like people are too lazy to click the link to the left)






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President Hoover even bears a physical resemblance to the current Republican presidential nominee.

I know how some Republicans like to dispute history (like say holding the belief that dinosaurs roamed the Earth 4,000 years ago in the Garden of Eden) so here is a link for fact checking purposes: http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/

I would also like to point out that there was also a Republican administration for the eight years prior to the election year that answered the above question. The president electected in the year that answers the question was also Secretary of Commerce for the 8 years prior to becoming president... And people wonder why the economy does better under a democratic president?

As George Santayana so eloquently phrased it: "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."