This President should be beatable. But the real Republican contender won’t get in the ring for another five years
Florida
By rights, Barack Obama should be on the ropes. After what he himself described as a ‘shellacking’ in the midterm elections, he was given a mandatory count and still managed to stay on his feet.

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