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Originally Posted by Environment Man
Obama has a Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan teflon quality though. Maybe overkill will work to his benefit.
It always did for Marion Barry. That is why even though he is an ex-con, he is a city councilman. If he ran for mayor again he would win.
And he would win because everything would be thrown at him and people rebel against it and support him anyway. Obama has some of this.
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that is a grotesquely inaccurate comparison.
Barry has been reelected by an african american electorate for a zillion reasons that have NOTHING to do with any teflon quality. It is a risk/benefit paradigm in which he has been thought to benefit his constituency more than the risks.
DC is a UNIQUE electorate for many reasons.