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Sarah Palin is the New Nixon

Adam Hanft | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics

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Adam Hanft

Like Nixon, Palin draws stark lines: her paeans to the good people grown in small towns, to the pro-America part of America, is just a reiteration of Nixon's famous "silent majority."

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Marvin Gaye On The 2008 Elections: A Musical Interlude

Jeff Chang | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain Lies, You're the Man, 1972 Election, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Marvin Gaye, Politics News
Jeff Chang

Many commentators have said that Obama's coalition has many similarities to the McGovern campaign. But there is a key difference. Demographics have shifted strongly away from Nixonland.

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