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Elections 2012 & 2016

Who is most likely to run in 2012 or 2016

  • Jeb Bush

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Bobby Jindal

    Votes: 1 5.6%

  • Hillary Clinton

    Votes: 6 33.3%

  • David Petraeus

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Mitt Romney

    Votes: 4 22.2%

  • None of the above

    Votes: 7 38.9%
  • Total voters
    18
  • Poll closed .
Kal'Stang said:
Just because he wasn't elected in 2008 does not mean that he is unelectable. Many did not vote for him because they were pissed off at republicans. Not because they didn't like McCain. They just disliked his party.
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I don't see him switching parties at this point, do you? Given that and his age, thankfully he will never be elected president.
 
PaleHorse2012 said:
And you didn't say anything other than I'm ignorant when it comes to history. Which inadvertently jogged my memory and I remembered an incumbent that was denied the nomination. I can't really say that you corrected me since you offered nothing but an ad hominen attack and I still don't know whether you know who this president was.

I brought up the primaries question just as an aside, not as an attempt to be consistent because "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." (Ralph Waldo Emerson, who was a contemporary of that incumbent president that was denied nomination for re-election, hint hint)
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What are you trying to get at here?
 
I hope Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, or Sarah Palin don't run again in 2012. :doh
And especially Jed Bush. Please, no.
 
I hope Mike Huckabee runs.
 
Cilogy said:
Besides either Obama or McCain running for possible re-election in 2012, which of the above people do think is most likely to run?
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Who cares. It will be another Washinton DC crook. Doesnt matter who really.
 
PaleHorse2012 said:
Whether you actually know who that other incumbent was who was denied his own party's nomination (making Obama the second) or whether you just wanted to call me ignorant because I said something you didn't like.
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I knew the answer was Franklin Pierce. I'm a huge civil war buff and I just finished reading a book about the rivalry between Lincoln and Douglas that talked about it. That isn't to say there aren't candidates that wanted to seek the nomination but knew they wouldn't win it like LBJ and Wilson who tried to get it even when he really shouldn't have (he ended up dooming his stand in, McAdoo)
 
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