Obama, but it would've been the closest race out of the hypothetical three.
boxington posted...
you mean Obama running for a third term, or in a hypothetical situation where he was running for the first time?
I think he'd win in both scenarios, but a better lead in the second one.
Oh if it was the first time, Obama would have the same result he had against John McCain. No Republican was gonna win that year, not even Obama if he ran as a Republican. People HATED Bush and killed off the neocon movement with that presidency and temporarily killed the Republican party temporarily. If you viewed yourself as a Republican in 2008-2010, you were considered a factually evil human being with no worth. Bush did so much damage to the Republican image during those eight years.
This. I still get into arguments with people who keep throwing in "he was only elected because he was black". Constantly ignores the fact that on top of the Bush administration fucking up, the banks were fucking up, and Sarah fucking Palin.
Somehow forgot about this when I was writing that. But yes, the recession was the icing on the top. NO republican was gonna survive that. Again, if Obama, JFK, Ghandi, Jesus Christ, etc. ran as a Republican that year, they would still lose.
Sarah Palin didn't help either. With the Republicans throwing out the most unlikeable VP candidate in history, it was like they wanted to get assblasted that year. ---
