Describe someone who strongly approved of Richard Nixon in August 1974

[Blow by blow, the passion dies]

I have no idea

[Ragnaroni]

I have no idea

Someone who didn't care about Watergare and much appreciated Nixon's withdrawal from Vietnam? Maybe a staunch, a little too staunch perhaps, Republican?

[TDAS04]

Richard Nixon.

[King of Kensington]

Donald Trump?

[TransfemmeGoreVidal]

The ghost of checkers

[TheElectoralBoobyPrize]

Southern white males.

[Blow by blow, the passion dies]

The ghost of checkers

Dogs don't have souls.

[dw93]

Archie Bunker

[Ferguson97]

Republican hacks.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Earl Landgrebe.

[Alben Barkley]

Southern white males.

Nixon's scandals arguably hurt him in the South more than anywhere else, allowing Carter to capitalize on the region's distrust in government and the GOP and sweep it a few years later.

[President Johnson]

Roger Stone

[TheElectoralBoobyPrize]

Southern white males.

Nixon's scandals arguably hurt him in the South more than anywhere else, allowing Carter to capitalize on the region's distrust in government and the GOP and sweep it a few years later.

Ford still won the white vote in the South, and I'm not saying Nixon had majority approval with southern white males...just that they were more likely to have still supported Nixon than any other demographic other than just Republicans.

[ReaganLimbaugh]

Someone who realized that all most campaigns spy on each other.

[bagelman]

Someone who, although they might not even realize it, deep down does not support democracy or republicanism and wants to be ruled over by a King.

[Sir Mohamed]

A very hardcore partisan that thought Watergate was hoax to get Nixon and that he and his "plumbers" just did what was necessary to win.

[Alben Barkley]

Southern white males.

Nixon's scandals arguably hurt him in the South more than anywhere else, allowing Carter to capitalize on the region's distrust in government and the GOP and sweep it a few years later.

Ford still won the white vote in the South, and I'm not saying Nixon had majority approval with southern white males...just that they were more likely to have still supported Nixon than any other demographic other than just Republicans.

People keep saying this, but I have yet to see any solid data proving it. Nationally Ford and Carter effectively tied in the white vote, but Carter did better in the South than he did in, well, any other region. He managed to lose Illinois, New Jersey, and California while winning Mississippi for Christ's sake... He also easily swept a bunch of overwhelmingly white rural counties that would go like 90%+ for Trump decades later in the South, and his best states outside of his native Georgia (where he swept every single county) were Arkansas and West Virginia. I don't understand how it's even mathematically possible he lost the white vote in the South. If anything it seems like perhaps his strongest white support came from the South, or at least certain pockets of it. Perhaps the Texas and Virginia suburbs or something dragged his overall white Southern support down, but it's hard to see how that outweighed everything else.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Southern white males.

Nixon's scandals arguably hurt him in the South more than anywhere else, allowing Carter to capitalize on the region's distrust in government and the GOP and sweep it a few years later.

Ford still won the white vote in the South, and I'm not saying Nixon had majority approval with southern white males...just that they were more likely to have still supported Nixon than any other demographic other than just Republicans.

People keep saying this, but I have yet to see any solid data proving it. Nationally Ford and Carter effectively tied in the white vote, but Carter did better in the South than he did in, well, any other region. He managed to lose Illinois, New Jersey, and California while winning Mississippi for Christ's sake... He also easily swept a bunch of overwhelmingly white rural counties that would go like 90%+ for Trump decades later in the South, and his best states outside of his native Georgia (where he swept every single county) were Arkansas and West Virginia. I don't understand how it's even mathematically possible he lost the white vote in the South. If anything it seems like perhaps his strongest white support came from the South, or at least certain pockets of it. Perhaps the Texas and Virginia suburbs or something dragged his overall white Southern support down, but it's hard to see how that outweighed everything else.

I mean Carter dominated the Rural South in 1980 and lost all but one state (two if you count WV) so it could be the same thing here.

His wins in the South coming of extremely strong performances with Rural Whites and the African American vote while he lost Urban and Suburban White voters in the South who made up most Whites.

[Unpoisoned Chalice]

1976 CBS exit polls have Ford winning the white southern vote by 6 points.

[Yu748Girl83]

1976 CBS exit polls have Ford winning the white southern vote by 6 points.

Exit polls are historically unreliable.

[Unpoisoned Chalice]

1976 CBS exit polls have Ford winning the white southern vote by 6 points.

Exit polls are historically unreliable.

Whether you like exit polls or not, there is no way Carter won the white southern vote in 1976.

[One Term Floridian]

1976 CBS exit polls have Ford winning the white southern vote by 6 points.

Exit polls are historically unreliable.

Whether you like exit polls or not, there is no way Carter won the white southern vote in 1976.

Carter did not do well at all with suburban whites, a reliably GOP constituency after 1964. If anything, Carter's results in 1980 should be very telling. Close losses in AL, MS, TN, SC and AR were the result of him utterly crashing with the suburban white vote even though he did well with blacks and most poor whites.

Even though he did well with rural whites basically all across the South, the fact that MS was close and he lost VA should tell you he wasn't winning whites overall, even in 1976. If I had to guess he was winning just under 45% of southern whites that year. Still a very good performance. Imagine Obama or Biden with those kinda numbers. They'd sweep the South too lol

[NotSoLucky]

The idiotic Baby Boomers on the YouTube comments section for any video relating to the Vietnam war. One of them claimed that the Nixon impeachment was "a communist conspiracy just like the fake Trump impeachment"