There was nothing "middle" about Obama...not in his campaign or anything else. Those who voted for him in the "middle" were largely of the usual uninterested in politics variety but "golly gee, if we had a black president wouldn't that just say something?"

Now we're watching people get bludgeoned in the streets to make sure "black lives matter". The "middle" is and always will be the open door for the worst in politics.

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Posted by OverseasBengal

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Posted on 8/19/20 at 3:53 pm to AUCom96

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There was nothing "middle" about Obama...not in his campaign or anything else. Those who voted for him in the "middle" were largely of the usual uninterested in politics variety but "golly gee, if we had a black president wouldn't that just say something?"

Now we're watching people get bludgeoned in the streets to make sure "black lives matter". The "middle" is and always will be the open door for the worst in politics.

This is extremely well put and indisputably true. The intellectual dishonesty of the person you responded to is simply gross

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Posted by LSUFanHouston

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Posted on 8/19/20 at 4:02 pm to AUCom96

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There was nothing "middle" about Obama...not in his campaign or anything else. Those who voted for him in the "middle" were largely of the usual uninterested in politics variety but "golly gee, if we had a black president wouldn't that just say something?"

2008 also saw a financial crisis and people sick of the Bushes and Clintons. Obama was a guy with soaring rhetoric and not a lot of baggage (to the common person) mainly because he didn't have much of a record to run on.

2012 showed how hard it is to beat an incumbent, especially when the opponent isn't much different than the incumbent.

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