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ClarkUSA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-23-07 05:28 AM
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Historically, which has won more presidential contests -- "Change" or "Experience" candidates?
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Edited on Fri Nov-23-07 05:29 AM by ClarkUSA
In a Washington Post poll released in October '92, then-Pres. Bush scored nearly 20 points higher on having the "right experience" for
the job compared with Bill Clinton. Al Gore had a nearly identical 20-point advantage over George W. Bush on the experience question
in an election eve survey by ABC. And we know how both of those elections turned out.

Change usually trumps experience even as the experience issue can be used to sway last minute undecideds. Gerald Ford got close in
'76 because of his ability to call into question Jimmy Carter's inexperience. Ditto with Nixon in '60 with JFK. But what do both Ford and
Nixon have in common? Change trumped experience at the very end.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21918110/page/2/


Yeah, yeah, yeah.... we all know how Bush II got selected, but keep to the point of this article -- which is "change" presidential candidates
tend to trump "experience" candidates.
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