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Without clicking into partisan mode, can you name a president who actually won by doing that?
(Any list you come up with will be all Republicans and completely wrong, of course.)
Nixon.
He was almost impeached for it too.
And Reagan.
But I will say Reagan had a great deal of Charisma and probably didn't need to engage in dirty tricks.
See, I knew you couldn't do it without being partisan.
Come on, Reagan. I would say Reagan was the most inspiring guy whose held the office in my lifetime.
He didn't destroy Carter or Mondale. Carter destroyed himself by being a complete boob. Mondale just promised more of the same.
Nixon you could have a little more of a leg to stand on, although, again, I would go so far to say that McGovern did more damage to himself than Nixon did.
I really do think Reagan's people talked the the Iranian government prior to the election. Events bear that out.
Carter wasn't a complete boob. He was way to honest. That's never a good thing in a politician, although everyone seems to want it. He leveled with the American people and they didn't like the reality.