In 1972, Democrat George McGovern carried only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia against Republican Richard Nixon but at the same time, Democrats only lost 13 House seats and gained two Senate seats. What happened and why?
With a nominee that the Democratic establishment couldn’t stomach, they raised all their money and spent it on keeping their house majority and increasing it in the Senate. This is likely what’s going to happen if its Hilary vs Trump for President but in the reverse. Hilary will have no coat-tails for down-ticket Democrats the way Bernie would given the kind of support he commands, the demographics, and the poll results that predict it. Hilary’s negatives are too big and it’s bad enough to argue she’s the lesser of two evils so vote for the other people on her ticket…..it’s a very hard sell
The Republican establishment will make the most of the situation by raising all the money they’d normally spend on the presidential race for keeping and extending their congressional majority….if they have any brains at all. The Democrats did it in 1972 and the Republicans are capable of it in 2016, especially if the Democrats cooperate by nominating the person with the second highest negative poll ratings following Trump!
About Jan Tucker
The Detectives Diary is an innovative tool combining Private Investigation and Journalism. In 1984, Steve Harvey's Los Angeles Times "Around the Southland" Column entitled Jan Tucker's program of providing low-cost "Opposition Research" services to indigent and working class candidates for public office, "Take Cover: Hired Mudslinger Rides into Town." A 1996 Los Angeles Times article by Henry Chu carried a sub-headline identifying Tucker as a "P.R. Guru." In November 2012, Tucker became Criminal Justice Columnist for Counter Punch Magazine and a commentator for Black Talk Radio.
As a private investigator since 1979 and a former First Vice President of Newspaper Guild Local 69, Tucker takes these skills to a new level in the pages of the Detectives Diary with insightful and unique exposures and analysis of history and current events.
State Director--California League of Latin American Citizens, Former seven term Chairman of the Board of the California Association of Licensed Investigators, Co-President San Fernando Valley/Northeast Los Angeles Chapter-National Organization for Women, former National Commissioner for Civil Rights-League of United Latin American Citizens, former Second Vice President-Inglewood-South Bay Branch-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, former founding Vice President-Armenian American Action Committee, former First Vice President, Newspaper Guild Local 69 (AFL-CIO, CLC, CWA), Board member, Alameda Corridor Jobs Coalition, Community Advisory Board member--USC-Keck School of Medicine Alzheimer's Disease Research Project
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