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Cavuto: 2012 is just like 1980

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    Media coverage of Romney, Reagan is the same

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Are you have a polish commander in -- on foot and mouth town warnings from the white house calls for cooler heads.

Challenger criticized for sounding more like -- -- it and economy not going the president's way but a challenger on able to capitalize on it and bring -- his way.

No I'm not talking about this election your twentieth while.

I am talking about that election year 198032.

Years ago this very month the similarities are very no -- Hard as it is to believe now Jimmy Carter was leading them over -- told the media dean just short of the duke is that.

Ronald Reagan's attack somebody called feckless foreign policy was considered bombastic at -- And a genuine threat to our very national security at -- He was the cowboy with a loose lips and the economic platform with -- -- facts no way this cowboy could.

-- the world stage no way his tax cuts could lead a world recovery.

Never mind history -- the -- could and those tax cuts did.

32 years ago this month.

Do you have any in the mainstream media thought the Republican challenger would you didn't get the chance.

Sort of like the stuff I'm hearing about the Republican challenger this year.

And he says dumb things in politics things that he should know -- place and that words have consequences.

As if the actions of the president he's criticizing have no consequence -- The challenge.

Always on the challenger.

And -- media very dismissive of the challenge particularly these Republicans.

Back in 1980 all that lecturing the candidate it seemed to have concluded.

Did not measure up.

As if the economy then dead -- our image abroad did.

-- the -- instant polls my friends is something I like to call seething anger.

It doesn't view him as much as it testers over an economy that doesn't movement its international image that does -- -- Now let me be very clear here none of this is to say that Mitt Romney is Ronald Reagan or Barack Obama is Jimmy Carter.

The president.

This year is seems -- And his challenger this year it seems a bit to stuff it.

For another as the media really loves Barack Obama I don't think it ever got its arms fully around what Jimmy Carter still the challenger always has an uphill fight.

Including an -- media -- But we mistake having to win over the -- the polls they showcase with winning over the people and this shifting seething anger.

Only voters themselves now.

Until it's Election Day and then everyone knows and everyone is shocked everyone that is except.

Those voters who receiving long forgotten by the pundits never ever.

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