David Keene: Obama-MCain = Reagan-Carter

[featherman]

(Caveat: Keene is Chairman of the American Conservative Union but the historical treatment he offers here is beginning to work it's way into the MSM election narrative. GOP spokesman Tony Blankley stated much the same theme on TV the other day)

For what it's worth:

"Carter actually led in most polls through the summer and into the early fall because voters didn’t know if they could actually vote for Reagan, who’d been framed by his opponents as a bomb-throwing lunatic who might plunge us into war if he ever got near the button. By fall, however, as the results of the debates and the opportunity to take Reagan’s measure had settled in, voters finally got comfortable with the idea of him in the Oval Office. When that happened, the bottom fell out, Carter was gone and a lot of Democratic senators and congressmen got sent packing along with him.

This year is shaping up the same way, only this time it’s the Republicans voters want to fire. And this time, it’s the Democratic nominee they are not quite sure they can put in the Oval Office.

I would maintain that Obama has a higher mountain to scale than did Reagan, but the challenge is the same. If at any point between now and Election Day voters decide they can actually trust him as president, they’ll give him the job and the close race today’s polls seem to be predicting will turn into a Democratic landslide."

more at: http://pundits.thehill.com/2008/07/23/obama-mccain-reagan-carter/

[writes3000]

1. Interesting analysis. I've heard this comparison a few times now. n/t

[anonymous171]

2. Like Carter, McCain has a depressing platform.

The difference is that Carter turned out to be right, whereas McCain is dead wrong.

[LSK]

3. no, this is Clinton - Dole

With McCain making Dole look good.

[Zynx]

4. The debates are going to be the deciding moment.

Obama's contrast versus McCain is vast.