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Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Obama’s opposition was so unhinged, so similar to the current extreme left, and the extreme left under Bush II, and the extreme right under Clinton, that I suspect it drove a lot of moderate voters to show up and vote for him. ... I suspect a quiet Obama increase among moderates appeared in 2012.
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A lot of moderates voted for Obama in 2008, and he won states like Indiana and North Carolina. (I didn't need to Google that -- I remember it!) In your view, then, he had a lot of Tea Party opposition over the next few years, and then in 2012 fewer of those moderates voted for him, he got a smaller share of the vote, and he did not win Indiana or North Carolina, and this somehow shows that the opposition to him helped him. Now it's possible that if you flesh this out a lot more, it will somehow make sense, but I think you have to acknowledge that the basic facts here make your view silly.
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