Before Bush, there was CREEP and Rove was there.

You've got to wade through four minutes of this dated, but interesting (if you are into computers and politics) CBS News piece on the '72 campaign. Keep an eye out for a 21 year old Karl Rove talking about grabbing the GOP youth vote for Nixon in '72 at the CREEP HQ (committee to re-elect the President). He must have done a bang up job, as Nixon won in a landslide. What better place to learn the evil tricks of the trade than as a young whippersnapper at CREEP. My oh my, how our world has benefited from the unbridled ideological ambitions of young men like Karl.