Re:Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation
by saghm on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @12:31PM
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To be fair, support for removing Nixon from office among Republicans appeared rather rapidly, and there were still Republicans staunchly in support of him until the end https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/it-took-a-long-time-for...
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Re:Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation
by jki275 on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @12:34PM
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Nixon had a whole lot of other things going against him.
Re:Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation
by munk-a on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @12:52PM
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Nixon also had a whole lot of things going for him, he was hardly an unpopular president and the watergate scandal is sort of ridiculous with hindsight because he won re-election by a wide margin. The 1968 election was close and he likely would have lost if not for the trainwreck that was Wallace, but in 1972 he absolutely trounced McGovern.
Nixon was a generally popular president and it took a long time for his support to start slipping. His famous line "People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got." wasn't nearly as in poor taste as it seems in hindsight.