Democrat Pollsters To Obama: "Abandon Candidacy", Move Aside For Hillary Run

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Former Democratic Pollsters: Obama Should Abandon Run for Second Term

By Michael Catalini

Updated: November 21, 2011 | 10:56 a.m.
November 20, 2011 | 7:58 p.m.

President Obama should abandon his run for a second term and turn over the reins of the Democratic Party to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, two one-time Democratic pollsters wrote in Monday's Wall Street Journal, which appeared online Sunday.

Patrick H. Caddell and Douglas E. Schoen argued that just as Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson decided not to pursue additional runs though they could have, Obama should do the same.
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