Two points to watch tonight:
Forget conspiracy theories here is some history to guide what could happen
1 > In bad economic times the incumbent President always takes a beating. EXAMPLE: The last one term president was George HW Bush - remember him? After the 1991 Gulf War he was riding a huge wave of popularity....
One year later... Recession... And along comes the governor of Arkansas, a bac
Forget conspiracy theories here is some history to guide what could happen
1 > In bad economic times the incumbent President always takes a beating. EXAMPLE: The last one term president was George HW Bush - remember him? After the 1991 Gulf War he was riding a huge wave of popularity....
One year later... Recession... And along comes the governor of Arkansas, a bac
kwards state mostly known for rednecks, hillbillies and moonshine named William Jefferson Clinton. A man known largely for sex scandals with big haired women but who ended up beating a president that just a year earlier had huge approval ratings.
Why? People tend to vote against the president in bad economic times - Just ask ol' George HW Bush about that.
2 > Next point, for all the fear mongerer's out there, never judge - sadly - what a president will do by what they promise in an election campaign. I remember a certain president who was going to close Gitmo, have civillan trials of terrorist suspects and immediately withdraw from Iraq. You probably know him - he's up for re-election today.
What he ended up doing in the first two years? Pretty much continue GW Bushes foreign policy but with better grammar, and could correct pronunciations of the names of the leaders he met.
Why? People tend to vote against the president in bad economic times - Just ask ol' George HW Bush about that.
2 > Next point, for all the fear mongerer's out there, never judge - sadly - what a president will do by what they promise in an election campaign. I remember a certain president who was going to close Gitmo, have civillan trials of terrorist suspects and immediately withdraw from Iraq. You probably know him - he's up for re-election today.
What he ended up doing in the first two years? Pretty much continue GW Bushes foreign policy but with better grammar, and could correct pronunciations of the names of the leaders he met.
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