How can we account for the election results?
1. Republican Hubris. Just as it did against Bill Clinton in 1996, the Republican establishment simply assumed a vulnerable incumbent would lose re-election no matter who opposed him. Twelve Republican aspirants presented themselves as candidates for their party’s nomination, 10 or 11 of whom had no realistic chance of winning. But they fought a vicious contest that compromised everyone’s credibility and cost millions that Obama did not have to match. Romney won after being savaged by his own party, and Obama did not have to say a word or spend a dollar.
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1. Republican Hubris. Just as it did against Bill Clinton in 1996, the Republican establishment simply assumed a vulnerable incumbent would lose re-election no matter who opposed him. Twelve Republican aspirants presented themselves as candidates for their party’s nomination, 10 or 11 of whom had no realistic chance of winning. But they fought a vicious contest that compromised everyone’s credibility and cost millions that Obama did not have to match. Romney won after being savaged by his own party, and Obama did not have to say a word or spend a dollar.
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