IMHO Obama is the sacrificial cow... all we are talking about and the media is talking about is who will be the next democrate candidate for president. All the focus is on the democrats! We get a smatter here and there of who will be the republican candidate, but they are old story McCain and Juliani, nothing new here folks, move along.
If we have 2 years of this, only democrate candidates are going to be on the lips of the voters, with a hohum oh yeah with the republicans. We really don't have anyone to garner the media's attention nor the attention of the voting public.
Obama is hugely charismatic and I'm sorry to say that a large part of the voting public go directly for the charisma. And if the media loves him, are we really going to hear the negatives? Only if Hillary directs it.
Yes. He has a big advantage.