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« on: May 12, 2017, 04:22:44 PM »

Because people weren't as hyperpartisan back in the 1970s.

Watergate was an indictment against Nixon's character, not the character of the entire Republican Party.

What I was going to say.  Watergate immortalized Nixon as "a crook" (LOL), it was all about him.  Sure, his VP who pardoned him might have lost "re"-election because of it, but I don't think people saw emerging Southern Republicans or Republicans out West or even most Northeastern "establishment" Republicans running for downballot things as having much to do with the whole fiasco.
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