{"id":1286050,"date":"2018-12-03T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/?p=1286050"},"modified":"2018-12-04T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T22:30:09","slug":"dissecting-george-h-w-bushs-unusual-electoral-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/de\/2018\/12\/dissecting-george-h-w-bushs-unusual-electoral-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Dissecting George H. W. Bush's Unusual Electoral Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

The elder Bush won an election that was hard to win, and lost one that was hard to lose. How does this happen?<\/b>
\nWhen it comes to presidential scandals, is all press really good press?
It will be hard for someone like Ted Cruz to earn his party’s nomination. But if he does, he’ll have a decent chance at winning the White House.
Will voters blame President Obama\u2014and punish Democrats in the upcoming mid-term elections\u2014for a climate of fear?
Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush probably won’t say much in his speaking tour. That’s because in politics, vagueness is key.
Despite the usual array of punditry, there’s not much President Obama could have done in the weeks leading up to the recent mid-terms to change the outcome.
What happens this week won’t end this week. The reverberations of a shutdown will be felt for years to come.<\/p>\n