[babble-on]

Why the hell is this guy writing about 1996? All the pundit said was that the victory margin was going to be huge. There was no other comparison being drawn, so why write about one?

[Ancesthntr]

“Why the hell is this guy writing about 1996? All the pundit said was that the victory margin was going to be huge. There was no other comparison being drawn, so why write about one?”

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I saw Stirewalt directly make the comparison to 1996 on the night of the debate. The writer is addressing that.

As for me, I think that there are comparisons to a prior election...1980, to be exact.

[GBA]

1996 was revealing, but not nearly as much so as 2016 has been.

Prior to Dole for President, I still believed, but 1996 proved to me that the GOP wasn't in it to win it and I couldn't understand that. It just didn't make sense.

It's taken a while since then, election by election, to fully shake off any remaining misplaced faith and trust in GovCo and to see that our sham two party system is nothing but pay to play theater and that we're the ones being played.

The worst part was that a majority of my fellow Americans in the audience fully believed the show was real, and not just actors on the stage playing their parts.

Finally(!), in 2016 none other than Donald J. Trump yanked back the curtains and flipped on all the lights to reveal what's been hidden. Boom!

And those uniparty rats been squealing and scattering to get back out of the light ever since!

Best Election Ever!!!