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nuxvomica

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5. I think the keys theory holds but he interpreted it wrong

Reply to marylandblue (Reply #2)

Mon Nov 21, 2016, 10:39 AM

Nov 2016

He failed to count the foreign-policy success key yet Obama had two: normalizing relations with Cuba and the Iran nuclear deal. He may have personally predicted Trump's win but the keys predicted Clinton's popular vote victory just as they did Gore's.

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