Slideshow: "I've Discovered Our Next President!"

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11/14/2009 - 1:30pm EDT |

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Fun Folly

Is there any way to measure the viability of a candidate (at the end of a president's first year) from the opposition party? It seems that it's been a curse in either party when a candidate was leading the field, three years out. Reagan may have been the exception but he didn't surrender after '76 and wasn't starting from scratch. If I was going to take on Obama I'd lay low until I saw what message was sent by the mid-terms.

It's probably not possible to guess the best position let alone the key issues for another year.

Anyone who is smart would let the hopefuls battle it out for a year and come back to remind them where they were wrong.view full comment

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