Yep. That was me and you missed a biggie. Tks for the correction. On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Roderick T. Beaman < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > Someone pointed out that in this earlier posting I forgot about Ronald > Reagan’s re-election bid in 1984 & so I did. It was a landslide over Walter > Mondale, so I’ve resubmitted it below. I can’t believe I didn’t include > this. > > > It seems to me that presidential re-election efforts have been getting less > successful > > 1956 - Dwight D. Eisenhower landslide win over challenger Adlai Stevenson > > 1964 - Lyndon B. Johnson landslide win over challenger Barry Goldwater > (Lyndon B. Johnson had succeeded to the presidency after John F. > Kennedy's assassination. ) > > 1972 - Richard Nixon landslide win over challenger George McGovern > > 1976 - Gerald Ford lost to challengerJames Earl Carter > (A unique situtation. Gerald Ford had succeeded to the > presidency after being appointed by Richard Nixon to fill the > vice-presidency > after Spiro Agnew had resigned. Nixon himself later resigned > the presidency.) > > 1980 - James Earl Carter lost to challenger Ronald Reagan > 1984 - Ronald Reagan had a landslide win over challenger Walter F. Mondale. > > > 1992 - George H. W. Bush lost to challenger William J. Clinton > > 1996- William J. Clinton did not win an impressive re-eleationbid over > challenger Robert Dole. > > 2004 - George W. Bush won an even less impressive win over challenger John > Kerry. > > Does this augur anything for Barack Obama personally or simply the > presidency or the country? Or is it just a red herring? > > > > Roderick T. Beaman,D.O. > Board Certified Family Physician > Politicians and government officials are like diapers. > They should be changed often and for the same reasons. > > > -- Earl “It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. . . . Taxes are paid because the taxpayers are afraid of offering resistance to the tax gatherers." Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises
