It is hard to believe that a dozen years have passed since we had a really interesting presidential election. 2008, in retrospect, was a picnic in the sense that a passel of Democrats brought good ideas to the table and now, eight years later, we can claim they've mostly been implemented. Republicans, on the other hand, managed, most likely because of ill-timing, to mess everything up. That is, because the timing of their "October surprise," the financial crash was off, or because Barack Obama jumped into the kerfuffle with both feet, what was supposed to be a threat effectively dispatched by John McCain, had to be converted into an on-going crisis to discredit the Democrat in the White House. After all, Congress had voted out all kinds of legislation with the expectation that it was all going to be repealed. A veto in the White House had not entered into their calculations.
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