Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-10975360-20131014124545/@comment-10975360-20131120173404

So dan quayle is an example of a qualified politician being a completely incompetent in office, so maybe an unqualified politician would do better, who knows? but i accept the argument that a man or woman ofcongress would be better.

Reagan was too right wing for the american electorate, too right wing for the republican party, it was only a series of unlikely events that saw him win, and win as big as he did, in 1980 - a weak and poorly funded third party, an democratic incumbent, the fact that carter was the democratic incumbent, and the fact that the incumbent had served probably the most unlucky presidential term since herbert hoover. Reagan would not have won in '76.

Reagan was a moderate governor of a liberal state, he ran a conservative campaign for a moderate to liberal electorate. As president reagan was a conservative, it was only the democratic congress that really stopped him from being more so.

Biden would lose to christie, he could probably beat any other republican but he would lose to christie, christie would run attack ads like as you quite correctly stated clinton did in 1996. Bear in mind that Republicans are a lot better at negative advertising than democrats.