Barack Obama or Jimmy Carter? Can you tell the difference?

Investor's Business Daily takes a look at the 2012 Presidential Election:

Nearly half of Americans think they're worse off now than they were when Barack Obama was inaugurated. Will GOP challengers start giving him the treatment Ronald Reagan gave Jimmy Carter?

'Are you better off than you were four years ago?" Reagan asked in his closing statement in the only debate of the 1980 presidential election.

"Is there more or less unemployment in the country than there was four years ago? Is America as respected throughout the world as it was? Do you feel that our security is as safe, that we're as strong as we were four years ago?"

These simple questions put in stark relief the tragedy that was the Carter presidency.

More than three decades later, we find ourselves again suffering through another destructive presidential term. And as in 1980, the public knows who's to blame.

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