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Presidential Historian Explains Why Dropping Biden Won’t Help Democrats
The Wall Street Journal ^
| July 6, 2024
| Wall Street Journal
Posted on 07/06/2024 4:42:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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President Biden is under mounting pressure to drop his bid for a second term. Historian Allan Lichtman, who correctly predicted nine of the last 10 presidents based on his system of thirteen true/false questions to the strength and performance of the White House party, breaks down why Biden still represents the best bet for Democrats.
Answers of true always favors stability. If six or more answers are false, we have earthquakes.
US Presidential elections are essentially up or down votes on the strength of the performance of the White House party.
In other words, it's performance, not campaigning, that counts.
- Party mandate: After the midterm elections, the incumbent party holds more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives than after the previous midterm elections.
- No primary contest: There is no serious contest for the incumbent party nomination.
- Incumbent seeking re-election: The incumbent party candidate is the sitting president.
- No third party: There is no significant third party or independent campaign.
- Strong short-term economy: The economy is not in recession during the election campaign.
- Strong long-term economy: Real per capita economic growth during the term equals or exceeds mean growth during the previous two terms.
- Major policy change: The incumbent administration effects major changes in national policy.
- No social unrest: There is no sustained social unrest during the term.
- No scandal: The incumbent administration is untainted by major scandal.
- No foreign/military failure: The incumbent administration suffers no major failure in foreign or military affairs.
- Major foreign/military success: The incumbent administration achieves a major success in foreign or military affairs.
- Charismatic incumbent: The incumbent party candidate is charismatic or a national hero.
- Uncharismatic challenger: The challenging party candidate is not charismatic or a national hero.
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
...correctly predicted nine of the last 10 presidents...Which one did he screw up?
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posted on
07/06/2024 4:44:34 PM PDT
by
Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: Libloather
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posted on
07/06/2024 4:48:17 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
To: Libloather
"In other words, it's performance, not campaigning, that counts." Given what happened in 2020, one might also say that "it's cheating, not campaigning, that counts."
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posted on
07/06/2024 4:48:59 PM PDT
by
Who is John Galt?
("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
To: All
Predicting 9 out 10 races where its a (at worst) a 50/50 coin flip really isn’t impressive.
and really most elections its pretty obvious who is going to win.
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posted on
07/06/2024 4:53:02 PM PDT
by
escapefromboston
(Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Soooo close...
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posted on
07/06/2024 4:54:09 PM PDT
by
Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: Libloather
technically he missed 2; bush/gore and the stolen 2020 election from DJT
To: E. Pluribus Unum
With a 6 handicap for electoral fraud.
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posted on
07/06/2024 4:54:36 PM PDT
by
LittleBillyInfidel
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The Democrats are the people who wanted and supported the dementia patient. Then they turn on a dime and now want him thrown out of office and want a new candidate. The jig is up, it’s a party run by lunatics and their hysterical supporters.
Good luck with Camela.
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posted on
07/06/2024 4:54:45 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: dragnet2
They aren’t upset that Biden has dementia
They are mad that the entire country knows about it. Democrats were more than willing to allow him to continue being president despite his mental problems
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posted on
07/06/2024 4:57:08 PM PDT
by
escapefromboston
(Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Both candidates are incumbents.
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posted on
07/06/2024 4:59:01 PM PDT
by
Ge0ffrey
To: Ge0ffrey
Both candidates are incumbents. But one of them is an incumbent incumbent and the other is an incumbent emeritus. 🤡
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posted on
07/06/2024 5:01:19 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
So according to Lichtman, the President could be caught on video sexually molesting children then murdering them, but if seven of the criteria listed in his model were true, the President would be re-elected. Seems to me his model may not be sufficient to cover all the possibilities.
To: spacejunkie2001
Yep. If he predicted Biden would win - he predicted wrong.
Maybe he hedged his bets by predicting Biden would be the next president of the United Sates.
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posted on
07/06/2024 5:08:37 PM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The Democrats ‘dropped’ their 1968 candidate and the replacement did very well, nearly defeating Nixon.
The way the media works in this country, people will be saying “Biden, who’s that?” a month after he’s dropped, and we’ll be seeing “Morning in America” puff pieces on the new candidate, even if that person is Maxine Waters or AOC.
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07/06/2024 5:12:50 PM PDT
by
BobL
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
07/06/2024 5:16:11 PM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: BobL
Johnson was “defeated” in early primaries. Actually, McCarthy scored too well in New Hampshire against Johnson’s 50 percent tally. Johnson withdrew later in the month of March.
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posted on
07/06/2024 5:17:12 PM PDT
by
jimfree
(My 21 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
To: FreedomForce
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posted on
07/06/2024 5:18:51 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Maybe its just me, but I have a hard time crediting a professor who is wearing a bad toupee, in a hair color not his own, with his eyebrows dyed to match and to hide the white and gray his years merit.
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