No Repub President without Nixon or Bush since 1928

This showed up on my TV this morning:

It’s surprising but true, and I had to explain it to our daughter.
It’s like the quip that “Until Andrew Jackson, every president was either from Virginia or named Adams” (with its equivalent that every president until Jackson that wasn’t from Virginia was named Adams)

This – this – is clearly why Romney lost. Maybe they shoulda run Jeb.

Or Cynthia Nixon.

That is such a Miranda thing to say.

I guess this settles the Springsteen vs Kid Rock debate. The winner will be whichever one picks Mojo Nixon as their running mate.

Chuck Todd brought this up last night. He thought a Jeb 2016 run was inevitable.

That stat left me gobsmacked.

Relevant XKCD which explains the whole thing, as per usual.

I was trying to recall whether Charles Curtis was a Nixon or a Bush relative, until I remembered that “since” and “not since” aren’t quite the same thing.