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muriel_volestrangler

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1. A comparison to 2008 might be more instructive

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Original post)

Tue Nov 22, 2016, 05:37 AM

Nov 2016

When a president is re-elected, you wouldn't expect loads of stories about him, But I don't remember Obama dominating the headlines all the time in 2008, especially with gaffes, idiocy, multimillion dollar payouts for fraud ...

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I was just looking at a NYT front page from mid November 2012 and comparing to today [View all] NRaleighLiberal Nov 2016 OP

A comparison to 2008 might be more instructive muriel_volestrangler Nov 2016 #1

Didn't have much time..looked for it but couldn't find it NRaleighLiberal Nov 2016 #2