> He was so bad, even Republicans of the day were grossed out.
Nixon was so bad that he won 1972 re-election with 520 out of 528 electoral votes. Or 60.7% of popular vote.
Nixon was so bad that he won 1972 re-election with 520 out of 528 electoral votes. Or 60.7% of popular vote.
What happened after that, including both politically for Nixon and in terms of further information about the use of the national security apparatus for domestic political purposes during the Administration (including during the 1972 re-election campaign) that occurred after what happened personally politically for Nixon?
(While the question asks what happened in 1971, most of the graphs that show anything show something very minor separation for the first few years after 1971. I think “Nixon icky” is an…incomplete…hypothesis, to the extent that any of the graphs show something real, but I don’t think “but he was re-elected by a wide margin in 1972” is a sufficient dismissal, either.)