Monday, August 15, 2011
What voting trends emerged from the 1968 and 1972 elections? What was Nixon's new electoral strategy?
The voting trends were wedge politics. the republicans made a Faustian deal with the Dixiecrat's in 1948. By 68, it was and all out ault against Civil Rights. Welfare, crime, abortion, Women's rights, gay rights and affirmative action became the buzz words for we, the republican Party are for good white people's values. The Silent Majority became the Moral Majority. This moment was crystallized in the 1968, Democratic Convention in Chicago. However, the Republican Party won every national election with this strategy. With exception of the post-Watergate election of Jimmy Carter. Lee Atwater and his crew were great with Willie Horton. You know the message,the democrats are minorities, gays and women. Weak and freaky, so you don't want a Democrat leading the nation. In 1972, that's when the republicans took National Defense and Patriotism from the Democrats because McGovern's pose is one of a weak man. The anti-civil rights message has worked over and over until Obama. Even Bill Clinton in his leadership council, Sista Soulja and Jesse Jackson played the same card to get elected. The cultural war that Pat Buchanan, one of Nixon's guys, has talked about was lost when Obama was elected.
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