At the start of this election cycle, republicans kept trying to draw similarities between this race and the race between Reagan and Carter. Republicans wanted to feed off of the dissatisfaction people felt with Carter and apply that to Obama. However, as this race heats up and goes into it's final stretches, to me this race is beginning to look a lot more like the 2004 election of Bush vs Kerry than the 1980 Reagan vs Carter election.
Now, obviously there are some pretty obvious similarities between John Kerry and Mitt Romney. They are both Massachusets politicians that come from a great personal wealth. They both have a history of flip flops and they similar personalities. Mitt Romney is going up against an incumbent that isn't the most popular, but is failing to make a dent in the poll numbers. In theory, with unemployment up above 8% and a series of controversial legislative efforts on Obama's behalf, his re-election should be in jeapordy, but Obama has consistently lead in most polls.
I think republicans were wrong on what race this is going to correlate with. What do you guys think, is Romney the next Kerry?
