Obama’s negatives are at least 50% now, even with biased Gallup polls and such. That is death for a politician who is a known quantity. Once he’s gone negative with a voter, they do not change their mind back again, so it can only get worse for the President.
2012 will mainly be a referendum on Obama’s first term. In spite of a number of uncomfortable blanks about Obama’s past, we gave him a chance for “hope and change” in 2008.
Now Obama is proving to be a cypher, a zero. I know that the Republicans can still figure out a way to lose this thing, but three of the four serious candidates that will appear (I don’t know who they are yet) will be able to win, and win fairly easily.
Typical couch potato political punditry. Fact is the power of the presidency is such that it’s difficult under the best of circumstances to defeat the incumbent. We have a fighting chance at this point, but that’s all. Much depends on who we nominate. At this stage, I see a potential Clinton-Perot deal shaping up, with Trump in the Perot role. The same types of “real” conservatives who voted for Perot are lining up to vote for Trump, with the same, tired, predictably disasterous results.
I agree. This has Jimmuh Carter written all over it. The gas crisis in the mideast did him in. We have another crisis in the mideast, which Zero is mishandling. I hope I’m not wrong, but Zero is his own worst enema, er, enemy.