1928

[texasleo]

When was the last time Republicans won the White House without a Bush or a Nixon on the ticket? You will not believe this: 1928.

You have got to go back to 1928 to find a year the Republicans won the White House without a Nixon or a Bush on the ticket. I owe James Carville for that gigantic detail. 80 years of nothing but Bushes and Nixons in winning Republican tickets -- tonight's "Big Number." You can take that to the bar room tonight.

http://hardblogger.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/22/1582587.aspx


You are my bar room.

:toast:

[DerekJ]

1. Very interesting... I never thought about that ..Damn I think he’s right too...WOW.

:think:

[PatSeg]

5. Yeah that was on Keith tonight

Good for a bar bet, until everyone else has heard it anyway.

[FrenchieCat]

2. That would have been the year before the big Wall Street Crash.....

Right?

[ccharles000]

3. what about Dole

[PatSeg]

4. That's a different trivia

This will be the first presidential election since 1980 that there wasn't a Bush or a Dole on the ticket. (Think that's how it goes)

[AllentownJake]

7. 1972

Dole was on the ticket with Ford in 1976.
1927 was Nixon Agnew.
Dole 1976 and 1996
Bush I 1980, 88, 92
Bush II 00, 04.

[PatSeg]

9. Thanks

I forgot about Ford/Dole!

[texasleo]

6. "won the White House"

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. He lost. nt