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To: a fool in paradise

Truman was elected once.

44 posted on 05/15/2012 2:17:41 PM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius

To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

Truman was elected once.

"Once!"

45 posted on 05/15/2012 2:21:05 PM PDT by dfwgator

To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

Make that FDR, but you see my point. Those successful incumbent presidents were almost exclusively Republicans for the past 70 years.

To spin it as commonplace for the guy elected to office to be re-elected is mythmaking. It just isn't historically accurate for Democrats.

57 posted on 05/15/2012 7:26:39 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Barack Obama has cut and run from what he called "the right war".)

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