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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf Chris Dodd had won the Democratic nomination in 2008, would he have beaten John McCain?
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DJ13
(23,671 posts)BainsBane
(53,066 posts)Seems like we're getting a bit obscure here.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)Long enough to be included in an SNL skit.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)In any race between two old white men who are difficult to distinguish between, the Republican has an advantage.
The landslide would have been the opposite of the Obama landslide.
TheKentuckian
(25,029 posts)or most any serious level (Senate, Governor, maybe even big city mayor) would have at least been even money and virtually all favored to varying degrees.
Hell, he is white, been around for a while, and a little long in the tooth.
Bush had fucked up so bad that many a Republican would have gone along with such a comfortable figure.
Who knows but it was our election to lose not some against all odds proposition some like to make out because they shit their britches when McShame had his little dead cat bounce with Phailin stirring a lil ruckus with the fuckwits.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Getting him the nod is much more difficult, though, than getting him to the White House. But he would've defeated McCain. The only two Democrats from 2008 that stood no chance at ever coming close to winning the White House were Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich. Even then, Gravel was light years ahead of Kucinich, who probably couldn't even win Vermont.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)I dunno about that.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)On the issues that define a campaign, absolutely he's pretty mainstream.
JI7
(89,264 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Black turnout would be lower, which hurts in states like North Carolina, Virginia and probably Indiana. He wins Ohio, maybe Florida (with the Jewish and elderly vote), but doesn't dominate nearly like Obama.