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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-03 04:19 PM
Response to Reply #100
103. A candidate who runs to the center? Yeucch!
Gore won by a wisp because he ran left at the very end when he realized he should have been doing it all along. Roosevelt ran on a relatively left-wing platform and won four terms. Kennedy ran left and beat Nixon. Johnson ran on civil rights and fear of nuclear war and won. And candidates in other races run left all the time.

Historical precedent is not a good predictor of such things, or there would be only one party in the US, and it would never move left or right.
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