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Cosmocat

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13. i agree with you generally

Reply to bobclark86 (Reply #5)

Wed Dec 26, 2012, 04:13 PM

Dec 2012

I would note, however, this president is the first president since Eisenhower to win two elections getting more than 51% of the vote.

By modern standards he has won two elections as strongly as anyone has.

Also, the only reason the democrats did not get the House is because of redistricting. Democratic congressional candidates got over 100,000 more votes than republican candidates for the 18 House seats, but somehow only won 5 of them. The republicans won 13. The same kind or greater discrepency happened in VA, Mich, Wisky and other states.

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