Has there ever been a Presidential re-election campaign...

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2. A fair story, but not a factor

Kerry was open to swift-boating because he was a new quantity.

But anyone whose vote was actually changed one way or another by the Bush guard story in 2004 had to be crazy. Bush had invaded a country under false pretenses only a year earlier. If someone was okay with that Crime Against Humanity that then they were not going to be swayed by the guard story. And people upset about Iraq and the economy didn't need any ancient history to figure out how to vote.

The Bush presidency versus the character of some unknown guy was the story, as it always is in re-election campaigns.

And this year it's the Obama presidency versus Mitt Romney, the man.