1972 and 2008

The 1972 election was waged on the issue of the Vietnam War, and radicalism. The 2008 election is based on the Iraq War, economy, and social issues. There are many correlations to these two elections even though there is a thirty six year difference between the two. To start out, both elections had many candidates who all had an equal shot in the beginning but dropped out due to failure. Although some of the candidates in 08’ didn’t drop out for reasons such as vehicular manslaughter or for the sake of being shot such as some of the 72’ electorates, they all did burn out in the end. A major correlation in this election is the Iraq War to the Vietnam War. The democratic candidate McGovern was a radicalist who wanted to bring the troops home and was very anti-war. Now although Barrack or Hillary cannot put themselves that far at the end of the spectrum to try to bring in as many moderates, they are still against the war and campaign that they want to bring the troops home and end the Iraq war. McCain was obviously not president in the past election as Nixon was yet, Nixon took on a very easy campaign somewhat as McCain seems to be doing. Since the mudslinging and scandals have been many public on the news with the two democratic candidates, even though the Republican party has looked horrific under Bush, the democrats never cease to show failure and prove that they can always make the other candidate look better. Clinton was found lieing about her trip to Bosnia ad being in a “war zone,” and Barrack’s mentor has found to be anti-American and racist; thus making Senator McCain look very good right now. Although I don’t predict a blowout with McCain winning as Nixon did, I do see McCain splitting Hilary’s votes with Barrack gaining less support because of his race and Muslim roots just as Nixon split the democrats and “McGovernities” votes in 72’.

Justin O'Connor