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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
Very false. The electorate had Clinton fatigue, Gore was at a disadvantage because while the economy was strong people were tired of the scandals and gridlock. Sitting VP's have a very hard time getting elected president. George HW Bush was the exception, not the rule.
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VP's don't always get elected, that is true. The real Clinton fatigue was by the Republicans who hated the Clintons and did everything they could to bring him down yet he still had a very high approval rating when he left office.
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Kerry didn't come out strong, the convention was a joke. He "almost" made up for it at the debates, but not quite.
He was not a very compelling candidate, but he was the best in a group of second tier candidates. (Notice that Clinton, Gore, Biden, etc all sat 2004 out?)
It's very very rare for an incumbent president to lose during wartime....and as much as people hate Bush now, you forget that he was pretty popular in 2004....AND at that time we still thought we would find WMD in Iraq, and that the Iraq war was justified.
Public opinion on those critical issues didn't turn until the 2006 election.
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Kerry came out of nowhere in the democratic primaries. He used a grass roots pound the pavement style in Iowa and it worked. Nobody suspected him and all the talk was of Dean and Kerry came out of nowhere. In a way he was a lot like Obama. Everyone assumed that Hillary had this all locked up and Obama really came on strong from the start. Kerry looked good right up until the swift boat attacks and he never really got back on track after that. I'm not saying that those attacks were the only reason he lost, but they were a major mistake for him.
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Also, Obama has proven again and again in this election cycle that he'll punch back, that he won't ignore an attack, no matter how idiotic the attack or attacker may be (see Jerome Corsi)
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I never said he wasn't willing to punch back.
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The rest of what you said was filled with even more distortions and misinformation than the shit I quoted above. You have no earthly idea what you're talking about.
Quit spitting out shit you heard in the barber shop as if it were fact.
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I don't go to a barber shop...I get all my political information from the bitches at the beauty parlor when we are all getting manicures
