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Kasz216 on 22 December 2011
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Mr Khan said:
lordmandeep said:
Anyways getting back to the polls, they are interesting however we need to Remember Jimmy Carter once led Reagan by over 24% a year before the 1980 election. So things can change.


Carter suffered the worst showing for an incumbent President in history based on electoral votes and 2nd worst in terms of the % of the vote.

Reagan got the biggest Presidential Victory ever (for being a new Candidate),
Reagan, LBJ and FDR got much bigger victories as Incumbents


Obama can become the next Bill Clinton or go down in flames like Carter.

Obama's positioned himself well against any possible "Carter-dom." Here's a guy who had a US citizen assassinated without trial and violated the sovereignty of a nominal ally to have someone else assassinated. Carter handled foreign affairs much more softly than Obama

Granted, there are some analogues to what was going on in Carter's tenure, but at the same time Gingrich, Romney, or Perry are no Reagan. Reagan was an ideal counterpoint to Carter on pretty much all fronts, whereas the way Obama's positioned himself, it's hard for anyone to be the "anti-Obama" without taking some very untenable positions

I'm still thinking his Legacy is going to be George W Bush 2 myself.

It just doesn't seem that way because right now the republicans are back with momentum and the democrats have to Rally around George W Bush 2, so the sad truth that he's been George W Bush 2 has to be pushed aside until they run a more liberal candidate vs Chris Christe (or whoever) in 4 years.