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Originally Posted by AmeliaG
Yup, this.
Also, Reagan ran and lost in 1968 and in 1976.
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I think I knew this in the back of my mind....
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Originally Posted by AmeliaG
Edit: To answer OP, Romney has no chance of being elected. If he is the nominee, the Republicans don't want to take the White House. Then again, what would really be different with a Republican administration? Are we suddenly going to have endless wars and an economy where mostly the rich the get richer and corporate welfare is the law of the land?
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I do not believe the Republican party made a serious attempt to reclaim the White House.
When we all set aside our political differences, there is no denying that the last few years of the Bush White House destroyed the US and bought us and the rest of the world to it's knees with the economy. There was so many vacant homes in my neighborhood it was a ghost town - it was strange. When they put up McCain against Obama they knew they were going to loose; McCain was a throwaway. It didn't matter who the Democrat party ran they would have won; Obama had a less than impressive track record and his single best quality was that he wasn't a Republican.
Romeny wasn't much better. Romeny wasn't the solution, he was the problem. Romney took other's people money, bought companies, charged massive "management fees" (massive!) while running companies into the ground. It's a beautiful business model - It doesn't matter if you are successful or not, you make money either way. It's just like Trump who borrows billions to build a huge project, runs it and charges huge fees, and then walks away as it fails... He looses nothing but made millions. This was exactly what the banks were doing - They were loaning out money that didn't belong to them, and making money no matter what happened. If someone defaulted on the house the banks only stood to make more money.
But what the Republican party didn't factor in what that no matter who was in the White House... Things were going to get better - a lot better. The only thing to fix our economy was time, and eight years is plenty of time. Unemployment is down, the economy is booming... Are we making as much money as before? Nope, of course not. The value of everything has been reduced. Yet we still walk around with our thousand dollar cell phones and the local movies are so fucking busy on weekends that you have to show up an hour early just to get parking.
The next election is going to be really fun to watch.