Hour 2 2020 Election
The Mark Simone Show
iHeartRadio and Mark Simone
4.3 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | New York, Mark Simone on W-O-R. |
| 0:05.3 | It's a beautiful sunny day. |
| 0:07.3 | It's not as warm as yesterday, but eight days until spring, a week from tomorrow. |
| 0:12.0 | It is spring 2019. |
| 0:14.1 | We've got lots to get to this hour. |
| 0:16.0 | We'll get to that crazy stupid Hudson Yards. |
| 0:18.6 | We'll get to Mayor de Blasio flapping and more coming up. The 2020 |
| 0:24.2 | election, what's going to be the issue for Democrats? You know, it's very hard to get rid of an |
| 0:29.7 | incumbent president. Doesn't happen very often. Think back now. Even mediocre nothing presidents. You know you know Obama not much of a track record |
| 0:41.1 | economy stalled got reelected Bush with a war that was unpopular all that George W. Bush got |
| 0:48.8 | himself reelected it's very tough to be a one-term president. That very rarely happens. |
| 0:55.7 | It only happens in the case of Jimmy Carter. |
| 0:58.7 | He was such a disaster. |
| 1:01.6 | And Bush, Sr., the economy was not good. |
| 1:05.5 | But also remember, it doesn't just happen, no matter how badly you're doing, |
| 1:09.9 | they still don't throw you out. |
| 1:11.2 | Look at Obama. |
| 1:12.6 | What it takes is an extraordinary candidate has to come along. |
| 1:17.1 | So in the case of Jimmy Carter, things weren't going well, and an amazing candidate came along. |
| 1:23.9 | Ronald Reagan, maybe the most skilled presidential candidate people had seen in |
| 1:27.7 | their lifetime. So it took that to beat Jimmy Carter and make him a one-term president. |
| 1:33.0 | And the case of George H.W. Bush economy was bad, but he probably would have been reelected, |
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