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Sunday, October 02, 2011

If History Is Our Guide, Obama's Re-Election Is Absolutely Certain

After all, in all of American history, no white candidate for President has ever beat a black incumbent President.

(Needless to say, the lesson here is that when it comes to professional presidential prognostication many people are making cocksure predictions based on historical samples radically too impoverished in fact to justify their confidence.)

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