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Buchanan got in the race, bush's approval rating was 75%. so not as popular as trump. the other thing with bush, that number had been extremely high because of the gulf war in early '91. it was already falling by that point in late '91. and by the new hampshire primary, it was down in the 50s. again, that's movement you just haven't seen with trump support among republicans. how about jimmy carter, 1980. ted kennedy almost got the democratic nomination from jimmy carter when ted kennedy got in the race, carter's approval rating with democrats was just 40%, 4-0, 40%. gerald ford. ronald reagan ...

Ted kennedy almost got the democratic nomination from jimmy carter when ted kennedy got in the race, carter's approval rating with democrats was just 40%, 4-0, 40%. gerald ford. ronald reagan took him all the way to the convention in kansas city in '76. ford was at 60% when ronald reagan decided to run against him. and then of course lbj, the vietnam war, eugene mccarthy got in the race in late 1967. lbj's approval with democrats was just 57%. so, again, you see here support that is just lower, in most cases significantly lower with their own party than trump was. there is one modern president...

I talked about how we look at donald trump and looking at ben carson and power of celebrity. i remember reading about the contempt that harry truman had for jfk and of course lbj and ike. they saw him as a lightweight as a pretty boy as daddy's boy. there were complaints in 1959 and 1960 that jfk was all about celebrity and all about good looks and this was taking politics in the wrong direction. is there any analogy to 1960, changing of american politics then, and what we're seeing celebrity in overdrive? >> i think there is in the sense that when that debate took place between nixon and jfk,...