American Way: Barack Obama is no shoo-in for re-election in 2012

The London Telegraph ^ | April 2, 2011 | Toby Harnden

[2ndDivisionVet]

Washington is the city of conventional wisdom. Denizens of the District of Columbia cling to a prevailing notion for dear life even when all evidence begins to point in another direction. Then, quick as a flash, the mood shifts and another idea takes hold.

So it has been with President Barack Obama and his 2012 re-election chances. Back in November, when his party was on the receiving end of the worst electoral pummelling since 1948, Obama was a dead cert one-term president, a Jimmy Carter with bells on heading for oblivion.

A compromise tax deal, the ratification of an arms treaty and the repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell gay ban in the military later and Obama was once more a colossus sitting astride the American body politic mocking those idiot Republicans queuing up to lose in 2012.

Despite Obama’s halting ambivalence over what to do with Libya, the continued unpopularity of his signature healthcare reform and an ailing economy, the Washington cognoscenti remains convinced. Altogether now: Obama’s a shoo-in. You hear it again and again.

Last week, however, a Quinnipiac poll found that Obama had the worst re-election figures of his presidency with 48 percent of voters disapproving and just 42 percent approving of his performance. In an election now against a generic Republican – any opponent – he would lose.

“Ah-ha!” say those in the know. “He won’t be running against a generic Republican. He’ll be running against someone with flaws, who can be painted as an extreme right-wing nut case.”

Given that 82 percent of Washingtonians voted for Obama in 2008 (the figure was probably much higher among journalists) this is standard fare in these parts....

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Perdogg!

[American Constitutionalist]

" The RNC will choose McCain again because he did such a greeeeaat job. "

I and 100s of others are telling the RNC to get with the program. We are refusing donate to the RNC and to give them our hard earned money until they and the Republican Congress takes us seriously and addresses Obama's birth certificate and eligibility.
Donald Trump needs to address this.
Donald Trump needs to face the RNC and confront them with this, and tell the RNC nationally , no money, until they address Obama's birth certificate.

[American Constitutionalist]

I refuse to give them any more money until they and Congress addresses Obama’s birth certificate and his eligibility...

[TheOldLady]

I pray it’s the truth.

I just can’t stop worrying about the vast left-wing voter fraud conspiracy. It used to be a joke. People would laugh about the cemetery, canine, and feline votes, but it’s just not funny anymore.