Hugging Bush (at least through the primaries)
By David Broder | Thursday, August 9, 2007 | The Washington Post
The current unprecedented low approval ratings for Bush and Cheney present Republican presidential hopefuls with a dilemma: how to get the backing of the incumbent without being identified too closely with him. Political analyst Broder offers two examples of the “Hug and Run” syndrome from recent history: the badly botched Humphrey campaign in 1968 which gave us Nixon and the calculated and cunning post-Reagan campaign that gave us Bush Senior in 1988…BS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/08/AR2007080802116_pf.html
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