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Edited on Fri Jan-18-08 01:32 AM by Kurt_and_Hunter
No candidate argument here. Just something I thought of...
Both Clinton and Reagan were considered sure losers earlier in the election year (1980 and 1992), but were elected almost by default in a terrible economy. Both beat an incumbent President who had faced a humiliating primary challenge within his party. (Ted Kennedy and Pat Buchanan) Both elections involved third-party candidates who got meaningful numbers of votes. (Anderson and Perot)
Both got their asses handed to them in the first mid-term elections, 1982 and 1994. (I think Reagan gained the Senate in 1980 and lost it back in 1982, but I could be wrong on that. The Dems added many seats to their existing majority in the house in 1982.)
Both Presidencies were marked by a big change in tax policy out of the gate, then bogged down into a long run of fighting with a congress of the other party.
Both were quite unpopular two years into their terms, and were presumed one termers at the time, but ended up winning easy re-election.
Both second terms were acrimonious, with a hostile congress hunting for the President's scalp.
Both were popular presidents, though Clinton was more popular at almost every point of comparison in their presidencies.
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