Worst Candidates in Modern History

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Dukakis worse candidate ever. Mondale probably wasnt as bad a pick as some people think, he just didnt have a chance against Reagan. Im not sure if anyone could have done better against Reagan in 1984.

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Mccain was a horrible candidate, from febuary on, while Clinton and Obama slugged it out he had the chance to identify his candidcy, create the image he wanted, and define the election, and he blew it.

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I am not sure if Kerry would have been voted out, I dont think we have ever had two consecutive one termers, I know we havent in modern history.

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I think it would depend on number of factors, the most important how Kerry and the democratic congress worked together.

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Oh I think they could have even won a larger margin with a democratic president.

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it wasnt so much them being in love with democrats that they sick of republicans and if Kerry could prove they were tying his hands they would have won by larger margins, people were so sick of the republicans then.

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1. John Kerry (Couldn't beat George W. Bush)
2. Jimmy Carter (Couldn't beat Ronald Reagan)
3. George McGovern (Couldn't beat Richard Nixon)

Gore beat Bush

And, Wallace did as well as he should have. He was a racist. He won the South. That makes sense.

No he didn't.

1. You can't reenter a race that you've already conceded from and Bush was gracious enough to allow Gore this chance.
2. They recounted the votes and Gore kept losing.
3. Why couldn't he win with as popular as Clinton was?

Oh I am sorry Derrick please tell me where in the constitution or in any election by laws that someone cannot retract a concession, especially when every major news network has the race as to close to call? Can you explain to where you arrived at that logic?

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No genius its not over till all the votes are counted!!!!!!!!

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You do know that there was a backroom deal that if Hayes won the election, Reconstruction would end, and the Republicans stole the election becuase of that deal. Yes, 1876 was a stonlen election. Good thing there were only 2 or 3 others.

Oh I believe it. Those Republicans were awful before the mid 20th century. Alot of people only support conspiracy theories that benefit their party's image, but I happen to believe MOST but NOT ALL of them.

As opposed to now? Really I mean really? When Reagan took office  we were 800 billion dollars in debt and now were close to 13 trillion dollars in debt, they have destroyed the constitution, put us in a un just war, have the biggest divide ever between the wealthy and the poor, and have destroyed the middle class. THE REPUBLICANS ARE AWFUL NOW!!!! REALLY? REALLY? I MEAN REALLY?

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I am not sure what that means, of course I am not sure what your talking about on most of your post anyway.LOL

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I am not sure what that means, of course I am not sure what your talking about on most of your post anyway.LOL

You sounded like you were quoting the Democrat playbook from 1936 when you heard words like "fat cats," "corporate greed," "evil capitalists." Those words were used to dumb down Americans when those reasons were anything but why the depression happened.

Well I am not a democrat, but I am d*** sure not a republican, I hate both parties. As George Wallace said in 1968 theres not a dimes worth of difference between the two.

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Probably Dukakis, I mean he blew a 17 point lead. Mondale was not as bad as Dukakis he just never had a chance.

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Ya Mondale was never even in the thing, he trailed sometimes by as many as 20 points. Lol but really Dukakis never even fought back and then at the end riding around in that tank lol, what a joke. He looked like an idiot.

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Maybe if he would have tried it early on, but by that time he was seen as such a bufoon.

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History has been very kind to Reagen. His approval ratings were always in the mid 50's, the highest he ever got was 72 and that was after he got shot, and when he left office they were like 63, but throughout his first term they were constantly below 50 percent in fact in 1982 they hit like 38%.

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Thats not what I mean there has been this myth put out that Reagan was so very popular through out his administration and thats just not true, not by a long shot. His numbers were just ok.

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Well there have been a few things we have agreed on, dont worry  I will get you straightened out on what to think, lol.

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Who says you can't judge a President during their time in office? Sure you can.

You can but not by approval rating. History takes time to unfold. That's why I still firmly support the Iraq war in fact each day since the invasion in 2003 I've supported it more and more. 50 years from now the democrats will be the party who was on the wrong side of history.

LOL WHATEVER

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Who says you can't judge a President during their time in office? Sure you can.

You can but not by approval rating. History takes time to unfold. That's why I still firmly support the Iraq war in fact each day since the invasion in 2003 I've supported it more and more. 50 years from now the democrats will be the party who was on the wrong side of history.

Bush grew this goverment leaps and bounds but you say nothing about, and you are all for the war because you dont have to fight it.
The Republicans were on the wrong side of history when it came to Social Security and Medicare.

Not once it goes bankrupt. The democrats will be looked at as greedy socialists who grew the government IN THE NAME OF helping the needy.

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Dole wasnt that bad of a candidate. He was the best they could have got that year, although the Clinton team was very worried about Lamar Alexander. Clinton would have hammered Powel at that time.

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Gore came from the most prestigous political family in Tennesse. He was a senator, his father was  a senator and Clinton carried the state twice. Gore made no effort in Tennessee and only lost by 40,000 votes. If he would have made the same effort in Tennessee that he made in Florida, he would have easily carried his home state.