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In reply to the discussion: What about Double Down? [View all]
 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
6. It's hard to say.
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 10:40 PM
Dec 2013

Some of them probably will be, but I personally think it's about two years too early to have any idea what the field will be like for either party.

I didn't feel that there was anything actually new to me in the book. Plus, it didn't do a very good job of capturing how for several months Republicans were desperate for anyone but Romney, and each of the other candidates had approximately three weeks of being well ahead of Romney, then each one in turn crashed and burned. They especially didn't show how totally bizarre Herman Cain was. He was beyond wacko. And he's barely mentioned in the book.

It also didn't really show how the 47% tape was such a huge story. At least it was in the world I inhabit, maybe not so much for watchers of Fox News.

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