By Mark Scott
Buffalo, NY – Circumstances leading up to the 2004 presidential election seem to point to another tightly contested race. But a University at Buffalo political scientist says if history is any indicator, President Bush's status as the incumbent should lead to his re-election.
Professor James Campbell says one-term presidents who returned their party to the White House rarely lose re-election. In the 20th century, just one president fitting that category, Jimmy Carter, lost. The elder George Bush lost his re-election bid after just one-term, but his party had been in the White House 12 years at that point. Professor Campbell is an expert in US presidential campaigns.
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