[Harley]

I discovered this while reading the Presidential ranking book "Where They Stand" by Bob Merry. The 13 keys were used by Allan Lichtman and Ken DeCell to evaluate the last 33 Presidential elections. heron year and a half ago they predicted Obama's re-election. They only counted 4 falses against Obama.

as I see it now, I only see Obama with TRUE for 2, 3, and 4. That means he has 9 FALSES and will be defeated I hope.

I believe the economy is still in recession or will be again shortly, and Obama's major policy change, Obamacare, is so overwhelming that becomes a negative.

Lichtman and DeCell warned not to apply the 13 keys forcefully, it did work in revisiting elections back to 1860,

[justlurking]

7 and 13 are true.

You might not like it, but that is how it is perceived by the opposition.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

14. The incumbent will do anything to win.

15. The media will let him get away with it.

16. The challenger will let him get away with it.

17. The public will let him get away with it either by being too stupid to notice or too apathetic to care.