Name me a modern American president who won the presidency without at least some success in the states of the old Confederacy.

谁能告诉我现代哪一位美国总统,能够在失去南方诸州支持后,还能赢得总统大选的

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Setting yourself up before the fact so that you can win an argument after the fact, so that you didn't--you just got unlucky.

在事实发生之前先给自己预设一下结局,你就能在事实发生之后赢得一场争论，所以你并不是不能做到-，只是不走运而已。

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However they get there, if they get to the right answer, people respect them.

无论中间的过程如何，只要他们能够得到正确答案，就能赢得人们的尊敬。

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