What If Everyone’s Wrong?

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What If Everyone’s Wrong?

Sep 3, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 47 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL

 

What if what everyone knows about presidential elections is wrong?

 

Everyone knows vice presidential candidates don’t matter. Except that on August 11, the day Paul Ryan was announced, Mitt Romney trailed by almost 5 percentage points in the RealClearPolitics average of polls. Two weeks later Romney had pulled to within 1 point​—​his strongest rally of the general election season.

Everyone knows that when a president is running for reelection, the race is a judgment on the incumbent​—​and that if the country isn’t in great shape, it’s very much in the challenger’s interest to keep the focus on the incumbent. Make it a referendum on the president. Don’t let the incumbent make it a choice read more http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/what-if-everyone-s-wrong_650785.html?nopager=1