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Is the 40-year pattern continuing? [1]
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Date: 2023-09-18
It would seem that Republicans are locked in the past, in the glory days of John Boehner and Paul Ryan, when they were winning big, important elections. It's the same past that Democrats were locked in circa 1983 during the glory days of Carl Albert and Tip O’Neill . If the 40-year pattern continues, just how well will the very weak candidate the Republicans put forward when he (or she) tries to make an issue of the incumbent's age? It seems to me that Joe Biden should cruise to an easy victory, given everything that’s happening.
I’ve been writing about the 40-year pattern since 2012 (here and elsewhere):
I didn’t take the 40-year pattern TOO seriously back when I first started paying attention to it, but (as you can see from my stupidly long 2017 essay), I really NEEDED it to be true. Like I said, I was a basket case in 2017 and 2018. I’m doin’ better now, but please check in with me if the pattern doesn’t hold, and the Republicans win the White House in 2024 and/or 2028. How y’all doin’?
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