e and work with the
dems. Bob Dole was in a similar situation. He ran against Clinton. Everyone
knew he would lose.
From: "s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2016 6:29 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Conse
Your cunning plan does not pass muster, I'm afraid. Republicans did not assume
Obama was going to win in 2012. On the contrary, they thought right up to the
last minute that their candidate Romney would win. They saw Obama as a failed,
unpopular Jimmy Carter-type one-term president. Boy, did the
From Huffington Post re: the 2008 election:
"Clinton got 83 percent of the black vote in 1992 and 84 percent in 1996; the
third-party candidate Ross Perot probably sliced away some of Clinton's black
support. Al Gore got 90 percent in 2000; John Kerry got 88 percent in 2004.
Obama captured
When Obama ran for his second term it seems to have been taken for granted,
even by Republicans, that he would win.
In that case, thought I at the time, wouldn't it have been a smart move to
have Sarah Palin as the rival candidate.
Why so?
Well, if the candidate is going to lose regard
Interesting and good points on the power of "narratives" and how they are
crafted.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Why We Lose: National Review Launches Victorian-Era Attack On Donald Trump
by John Nolte, 22 Jan 2016
Whatever you might think of National Review’s Thursday n