Obama and Romney have only met 3 times, and not in almost 5 years.

[retromike22]

"When Mitt Romney's wife, Ann, was diagnosed with breast cancer in late 2008, one of the people who reached out to the couple was newly elected President Barack Obama.

It was one of the few personal interactions between Obama and Romney.

"He was kind enough to call our home when my wife was ill, and he said that he and Michelle had my wife in their prayers," Romney said in an interview after the call. "I said, 'Mr. President-elect, Ann and I have you in our prayers'. And we do."

Even as their political fates have become more entwined, Obama and Romney have had little opportunity to connect directly. In fact, when the Democratic president and the former Republican governor of Massachusetts stand alongside each other during Wednesday night's presidential debate in Denver, it will be their first face-to-face meeting in nearly five years."

"It's a marked contrast to many of the other political pairs that have faced off against each other for the presidency. Obama and his 2008 GOP rival John McCain, for example, had worked together in the Senate before facing each other in the general election.

Similarly, President George W. Bush and his 2004 Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, knew each other from work in Washington. Same with President Bill Clinton and then-Kansas Sen. Bob Dole, the Republican nominee in 1996."

When was the last time the two major candidates had such few personal meetings?

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-romney-rivals-little-personal-history-130906404--election.html

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

When was the last time the two major candidates had such few personal meetings?

I'd guess Reagan-Carter in 1980 since Reagan had been out of office for a number of years so the sort of officially bipartisan events would tend to bring opposing candidates together would be something Reagan would likely not have bothered with since leaving the governor's mansion in Sacramento.

If not Reagan-Carter then Bush-Gore and Carter-Ford are also good possibilities.

[Politico]

The election is ugly, and largely a matter of business, but both candidates are good people deep, down inside. They both want the best for America even though they have different opinions of how to get there. We've already seen the results of four years of Obama. Do the American people want four more years of the last four years?

I suspect Reagan and Carter had little, if any, interaction with one another prior to the election. Similar to Romney and Obama, it is hard to see how their paths would have crossed much. The same probably holds true with regards to Ford and Carter since Carter was in his final days as governor when Ford became president. Dukakis and Bush, along with Clinton and Bush, would have interacted a bit more due to their public roles in the '80s. Same applies to Gore and Bush in the '90s. Obviously LBJ interacted with Goldwater, Nixon interacted with McGovern and Humphrey, JFK interacted with Nixon, Dole interacted with Clinton, Kerry interacted with Bush, and McCain interacted with Obama.

[King]

Obama doesn't have time to mingle with the nation's unemployed.

[sentinel]

"When Mitt Romney's wife, Ann, was diagnosed with breast cancer in late 2008, one of the people who reached out to the couple was newly elected President Barack Obama.


http://news.yahoo.com/obama-romney-rivals-little-personal-history-130906404--election.html

Senator Barack Obama or President-elect Barack Obama. Not President Barack Obama in 2008.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Well, that's about to change in two days.

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Kerry and Bush were in the Skull & Bones together at Yale, but they did not get along.