Posted on 06/21/2012 10:17:20 AM PDT by kingattax
We have grown unaccustomed to presidential landslides. The three most lopsided presidential races since 1988 fell short of the conventional definition of a landslide, which would be a ten-point difference in the popular vote between the winner of the election and the next-closest candidate. Obama in 2008 beat McCain by seven points and carried 28 states.
Clinton in 1996 beat Dole by eight points (although Clinton did not even get a majority of the popular vote) and carried 31 states. George H. Bush had a seven-point advantage over Dukakis in 1988 and carried 40 states. A quick perusal of the electoral maps in each race shows a closely divided nation and no real mandate for the victorious candidate.
But that landslide drought could end this November. Economic conditions produce landslides -- prosperity propelled Reagan and Eisenhower, for example, to huge re-election wins in 1984 and 1956. Economic distress affects voters even more.
Only once has a president persuaded Americans to re-elect him in grim economic times: FDR in his 1936 landslide re-election.
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The stock market collapse recently, I think, may be the last straw. It was the one area of “good news” that the media could harp on while concealing the unemployment #s.
Are you nuts?
Michael Barone: Romney and the White Working-Class (Demographics can work both ways.)
The 47% or so ppl on the gubmint teat don’t have any wealth! Wake up.
You are nuts.
Warren Buffett gets his social security check whether he needs it or not.
Maybe so, but he doesn’t need it like the 47%-ers. That’s all they have. They are bought and locked in. You’re goofy.
That is utterly IGNANT.
That is utterly IGNANT.
When 47% or so of the electorate do not pay taxes, yet receive some form of compensation from the gubmint, their wealth is laughable at best, if at all, and the GOP wants to cut such benefits while promoting personal responsibility, who they gonna vote for, IGNANT? Come on, venture a guess, this should be easy for you. It ain’t for the GOP!
End of story.
There's no 47% who do not pay taxes.
You are laughable. Don’t you know how to search? I found this in a heartbeat.
The core constituency of voters for the rats is the bloodsuckers. Yes, you are correct that there are wealthy rats who may cross the line to the GOP this election to save some of their wealth, but a large percentage of the ppl who have in the past and will again vote for the rats have no wealth, but only the gubmint check.
If we had Reagan running right now, it wouldn’t even be close. Remember this Romney we are talking about.
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