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Precisely Ron, It's almost a "pundit" fact that no candidate for the Republican Party wants to be seen in the company of George W. Bush. Similarly, many Democrats are waking up to realize that Hillary is "unelectable" (money is not everything).
What's bothering both parties in what happened in 06. suddenly an election was decided/decisively by the "middle." Worse, the middle is angry (as Fred Thompson correctly said yesterday) at both the Republicans and the Democrats. It is far more likely the "middle" will be voting against candidates not for them (so both sides need to make sure they are not on the hated list).
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