Palin vs. Obama: It Could Happen and It Could Be a Close Election

The Huffington Post | August 4, 2010 | Robert Guttman, Johns Hopkins University

[2ndDivisionVet]

As most of our thoughts are now turned towards this fall and the possibility of a larger than usual loss for the party in power -- the Democrats -- we should take a minute to look ahead to the presidential contest in 2012.

With unemployment likely over the 10% mark by election day this November and hot topics like the war in Afghanistan, the spiraling deficit and immigration to name a few, the Democrats will suffer larger than usual losses but they might not be as dire as analysts and pollsters are predicting. The House and Senate may stay in control of the Democrats because in the final analysis even in an anti-incumbent mood many voters revert back to casting their ballots for someone they know rather than taking a chance with a newcomer.

However, once the midterms are over and new faces emerge on the GOP side who will immediately be cast as potential presidential possibilities in 2012, one person seems to have taken the lead for that position as we head into the 2010 midterms. That person is the ever present former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin.

While many Democrats and pundits and others may laugh and scorn the former 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidates for her views and abruptly leaving her job as governor of Alaska and many of her other behaviors that seem to many as out of the mainstream, she actually seems to be doing quite well in positioning herself for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. She is very actively promoting, endorsing and giving money to candidates who look like likely winners this November. She is on FOX News as a commentator and the public knows her views and opinions on the key issues of the day.(continued)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-guttman/presidential-possibilitie_b_670019.html

[reasonisfaith]

Oh, no! Quick! Everyone stop supporting Palin!

I just don’t know what we would do without these brilliant posters who are able to find such critical information about Palin.

/s

[gogeo]

The left would like nothing more than to face Palin in a ‘12 contest, she's the most exposed and may be the most easily beatable . They're tactics are always the same, pummel until they announce or look like they might be running, make nice until the convention then when they win the nomination go back to pummeling...

The Left said...and did...the same thing in 1980. They wanted to run against Reagan.

Anybody hear how that worked out?

Palin 2012

[excopconservative]

I expect it will be Hillary. They need to find a way to keep Obama off the ticket for now.

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Unless Obama declines to run for some reason (almost unimaginable), any effort by Hillary to get the nomination would tear the Democrat Party apart. The Progressives are running it and they are running it to the left of even Hillary. She fought that battle in 2008 and lost and since then, the Progressives have taken total control of the party. More likely is an attempt to reunite everyone on the left with an Obama-Hillary ticket. I don’t see that helping them with independents as she has been an essential part of his leftist administration and it’s that administration the people will want to fire.