On Nov. 1, 2004, and Nov. 1, 2012, two incumbent presidents laid out closing arguments asking voters for a second term. President Bush held a rally in the warm embrace of Dallas, where he later retired after serving out a rocky second term. On Thursday, President Obama resumed his campaign schedule, blitzing through battleground states to try to defeat Mitt Romney with final entreaties delivered to cheering crowds in Green Bay, Wis., Las Vegas, and Boulder, Colo. However fervently Obama warns that the Bush era was a disaster to which Romney would return the country, the two very different...

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