RRusso1982
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« on: August 29, 2016, 07:17:53 AM » |
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I wonder if the debate gaffe made the ultimate difference. It came down to 6,000 votes in Ohio and 15,000 in Wisconsin. That was the Presidency. Both Rust Belt states with huge Eastern European populations, and Ford was actually polling well with those voters before the debate gaffe. The debate gaffe did not only hurt him with Eastern European voters. It reinforced the general opinion of him among all voters that he was a bumbling flake in over his head. I think that had he not made the gaffe in the debate, he still would have lost the popular vote and may have wound up with a Florida 2000 style crisis.
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