Letters to the Editor
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Slow week Leonard?
So the incumbants always lose when gas prices go up. Except for when they don't...which according to your article has happened twice--once in 1996 ("The exception that proves the rule?") and again in 2004 ("The only significant exception to this pattern...") .
It was very prudent of you to wrap up the article listing other factors that may have influenced the elections too. Like the Iran hostage crisis of 1979, or Perot's candidacy in '92...those factors which everyone else has long since concluded were the DECIDING factors. All in all what you given us here is 3 paragraphs proposing an interesting new perspective, and two final paragraphs tearing that perspective apart.
Take some time off Andrew. Enjoy some of that Berkeley, California weather. Try again next week.