Back in 2007 one of the smartest guys I know told me “the American people will never vote in a guy from Kenya named Hussein”.
In 2012 I posted on FR “the American people will never re-elect a POTUS with 8% unemployment (13% real), $4 gas, surging food prices, and trillion dollar deficits to the endo of time”
We were both badly underestimating the power of the Chicago Mob.
It’s amazing. And after Obama’s 2008 campaign got underway, I made several posts here calling his campaign “The Cotton Candy Express” because there was so much fluff. Then I started calling him Elmer Gantry because what he was preaching seemed so insincere and overwrought.
Then after he’d been in office a very short time, I posted that: “Obama views the USA like an envioius and resentful Third Worlder.” And later that he is our first Third World president.
He once said that recipients of government benefits are an important part of a winning Dim coalition. But it’s still amazing that he has been able to hoodwink enough Americans to be elected twice.
Demographics, plus several million conservatives were so turned off by McCain and Romney that they stayed home.
And the ineptness of the Republican party.