Re: Poll: Democrats split over whether Obama deserves challenge for his party's 2012 nomination

On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Peter Chattaway wrote:

> Hmmm.  When was the last time an incumbent president faced a serious 
> challenge for re-election?  Maybe when Ronald Reagan challenged Gerald 
> Ford in '76?  Except Ford doesn't really count as an incumbent seeking 
> re-election, as he was never elected to the presidency (or even the 
> vice-presidency) in the first place; he was just the guy who took over 
> when Nixon resigned.

> Hmmm, okay, Wikipedia reminds me that Ted Kennedy (and Jerry Brown) gave 
> Jimmy Carter some trouble in '80, and Pat Buchanan posed a threat to 
> George W. Bush in '92.

Hmmm, and in all three cases, the incumbent president ended up winning his 
party's nomination but losing the election to the other party.

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