[Repeal 16-17]

It is freaky how history appears to repeating itself. Political déjà vu.

[GLDNGUN]

It is freaky how history appears to repeating itself. Political déjà vu.

It's only going to get "freakier". We now have some GOP-e saying they will run a 3rd party candidate if Trump is the GOP nominee. SAME THING HAPPENED IN 1980 as just about everyone seems to have forgotten. First, the GOP said Reagan was too extreme and that he could never win a general election, especially against a sitting President. Indeed, Reagan was 20+ points down in the March, 1980 polls.

One of Reagan's GOP primary opponents was John Anderson. John Anderson said Reagan was too extreme and ran against Reagan and Carter as an independent. Now, Reagan's goose was really cooked, was it not? He not only had to battle a media-supported democrat with a huge lead, but now also a defector from his own party? Surely, Anderson would take votes away from Reagan, making him that much more of a longshot.

Anderson took about 7% of the popular vote but didn't win any states. Exit polls show he actually took as many votes away from Carter as he did Reagan. Of course, Reagan beat Carter by about 10% in an electoral landslide.

[Democratic-Republican]

It is freaky how history appears to repeating itself. Political déjà vu.

Exactly.

Marky Mark Levin: 'Waaaah, the era of Reagan is NOT over, dammit! Stop supporting populists!

~sigh~ no Mark, it is not over. It is simply repeating yet again, except that this time YOU are the one pulling for the Haig, Connally, Laxalt, Tower or whichever were regional conservatives that year.

Another great parallel to 1980 ... international press and leaders sticking their noses into our business.

This will not end well ... for them ... again.

[EarlyBird]

Deja vu is right!

Austin Ranney, American Enterprises Institute authority on the US election system, sees only difficult scenarios ahead for a late Ford entry into the race. First, if Mr. Reagan takes perhaps 40 percent of the delegates to the convention , then "theoretically there could be a brokered convention with Bush and [Sen. Howard H.] Baker throwing support to Ford."

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Primary deadlines are fast closing for Mr. Ford. Secretaries of state in many remaining primary states can still put his name on the ballot, even though candidate filing deadlines have passed. But even for that route, March holds all the time he has. His political home state Michigan ballot will be set March 21, California's March 31.

Another Ford option, according to Mr. Field: Skip the primaries but go on a national speakign tour, attacking President Carter, saying "I want to offer a choice," and hope the other candidates are viable enough to prevent a Reagan first ballot win at the July Republican convention in Detroit.

[COBOL2Java]

It is freaky how history appears to repeating itself. Political déjà vu.

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