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One thing I hope last night's election proved to people is that a presidential candidate being anti the incumbent is not enough to win.

Posted by Inigo (aka Inigo) Nov 7 '12, 06:58

It didn't work in 1996. It didn't work in 2004. It didn't work in 2012. You need to have a candidate people like with ideas that excite them, not just "anybody but the President we have".

Obama ran a middling campaign, had probably the worst debate performance in recent presidential history, and still won relatively easily. The reason, imo, is because no one was excited to vote for Romney. Nothing excited people like Reagan did in 1980.

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Unfortunately, I think it proved that the President being anti the challenger is enough to win. - Roger More Nov 7, 07:29
His party didn't want him and neither did America -- nm - Pippygalore Nov 7, 07:11
I disagree about the campaign bit... - ThunderProfit Nov 7, 07:08
I read somewhere, possibly ST, that the Latino vote increased 43% this election. - Loyola Nov 7, 07:05 5
- The Republicans need to realize that they need to reach women, Latinos and African-Americans with a compelling message. Otherwise, they're in trouble - Kim Pine Nov 7, 07:13 4
  - And that's not going to be easy to do, since they will have to reverse course on several issues that they've used to fire up their base to do it. - pmb Nov 7, 07:23 2
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    - well put. -- nm - ThunderProfit Nov 7, 07:25
  - There's a real opening here for someone who wants to be the first Latino Black man who used to be a woman, president. -- nm - Loyola Nov 7, 07:15
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One thing I hope last night's election proved to people is that a presidential candidate being anti the incumbent is not enough to win.

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