re: Unity 2020 - Not Trump. Not Biden.

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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?"

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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.