7 curious political comparisons: Mitt Romney is just like...

Nobody can remember a presidential primary fight quite like this one. But people are sure trying

Mitt Romney's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination is reminding some armchair historians of Walter Mondale's 1984 struggles, and others of John McCain's 2008 campaign.
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In some ways, there has never been a more topsy-turvy, unpredictable Republican presidential nomination fight than this year's grudge match between Mitt Romney and his surging and crashing rivals. But that's not stopping pundits and armchair historians from offering a parade of analogies to past candidates and campaigns. Sometimes the comparisons work, and sometimes they strain credulity. Here, seven past presidential candidates that bear at least some passing similarity to Romney 2012:

1. John Kerry

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