Comments on: U.S. Election Now in the Bag http://www.robhyndman.com/2008/01/30/us-election-now-in-the-bag/ any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:25:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Derek K. Miller http://www.robhyndman.com/2008/01/30/us-election-now-in-the-bag/#comment-80019 Derek K. Miller Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:23:27 +0000 http://www.robhyndman.com/2008/01/30/us-election-now-in-the-bag/#comment-80019 "How is it that conservatives put forward such a stunningly mediocre slate of candidates for this election?" I think many prospective Republican candidates realized that this election would be almost impossible for them to win with the current public feelings about the Bush presidency, so potentially promising people (though as a Canadian, I don't know who they might have been) simply stayed away from the candidacy race. Better, strategically, to wait until whoever wins for the Democrats has a record to run against, rather than trying either to justify the Bush legacy or to deflect attention away from it. “How is it that conservatives put forward such a stunningly mediocre slate of candidates for this election?”

I think many prospective Republican candidates realized that this election would be almost impossible for them to win with the current public feelings about the Bush presidency, so potentially promising people (though as a Canadian, I don’t know who they might have been) simply stayed away from the candidacy race.

Better, strategically, to wait until whoever wins for the Democrats has a record to run against, rather than trying either to justify the Bush legacy or to deflect attention away from it.

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