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tdevlin Wrote: Nov 08, 2012 2:38 PM

Untrue, George Bush Sr. was beat by Clinton and Gerald Ford was beat by Carter in 1976. There have plenty incumbents beat. If Obama were white, he would have been beat too. You can throw out all the records when it comes to the liberals wanting not to appear racists. And the Republican Christians that did not come to the polls( 3 million of them) should be very ashamed.

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cwalenta Wrote: Nov 08, 2012 3:11 PM

True, but she qualified that by saying that a REPUBLICAN has only ousted ONE incumbent DEMOCRAT. So that would preclude Clinton's ouster of Bush I

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gerald280 Wrote: Nov 08, 2012 2:43 PM

If obo was white he'd never have been considered an electable candidate by the dems leave alone a president.

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Don't Blame Romney

We spent billions of dollars and billions of words on an election to switch from President Obama, a Democratic Senate and a Republican House to President Obama, a Democratic Senate and a Republican House.

Every election predictor was wrong, except one: Incumbents usually win.

Republicans have taken out a sitting president only once in the last century, and that was in 1980 when Ronald Reagan beat Jimmy Carter. Sadly, Reagan's record remains secure.

The Democrats ran up against the incumbency problem in 2004. The landslide election for Democrats in 2006 suggests that Americans were not thrilled with...

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