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Buccaneer · 07-07-2008, 06:32 PM

Speaking of history repeating, I saw a bumper sticker today that brought back memories. Most of you were too young to remember the 1992 campaign, at least the day-to-day stuff. Back then, the theme was "hope" and "change". Many bought into solely because of fatigue after 12 years of Reagan/Bush1 and people just wanted something different. Most probably realistically didn't think it would be change for the better (i.e., still mage-partisanship) but that didn't matter. They simply wanted something new, esp. in difficult economic times. I see a lot of parallels between 1992 and 2008 (including a race wild card instead of a 3rd-party wild card) - simple political fatigue in difficult economic times - and a message of "hope" and "change".

07-07-2008, 06:32 PM	#373
Buccaneer Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Colorado	Speaking of history repeating, I saw a bumper sticker today that brought back memories. Most of you were too young to remember the 1992 campaign, at least the day-to-day stuff. Back then, the theme was "hope" and "change". Many bought into solely because of fatigue after 12 years of Reagan/Bush1 and people just wanted something different. Most probably realistically didn't think it would be change for the better (i.e., still mage-partisanship) but that didn't matter. They simply wanted something new, esp. in difficult economic times. I see a lot of parallels between 1992 and 2008 (including a race wild card instead of a 3rd-party wild card) - simple political fatigue in difficult economic times - and a message of "hope" and "change".