Bush didn’t make people vote for 0bama.
They voted for him by the millions because it was a feelgood personal statement for them to vote for the first black candidate to run for president.
0bama will have his own record to answer for in 2012, and it will be bad. And there just won’t be the thinly veiled affirmative action Hopey-Changey message. But still don’t underestimate how much his race will continue to be a huge motivational factor behind his support, even if it isn’t quite as ‘historic’ the second time around.
Perhaps 0bama will run his campaign on being the first black man to be REelected president...
“Bush didn’t make people vote for 0bama.
They voted for him by the millions because it was a feelgood personal statement for them to vote for the first black candidate to run for president.”
The economy had fallen apart and Bush was personally very unpopular. That is all it takes, in ANY election. Sure, Obama’s ethnicity played into this to an extent, but that was mostly window dressing. Had Hillary come out of the primary as the winner she would have won, same likely with Edwards, unless his sex scandal would have broken during the general, which would have thrown the election to McCain/Palin, headwinds be damned.
This election was lost before it began because of the faltering economy and the sitting president’s lack of job approval. In 2012 the situation will be exactly opposite.
If the economy is out of recession and the jobs market is recovered by 2012 we have zero chance, if the economy is bad we probably have a strong chance to beat Obama, regardless who opposes him. It IS indeed the economy, always and foremost.