“Nearly two years ago, the political world could only marvel at the breadth of voter support for Barack Obama.”
Well you can fool some of the independents some of the time and you can fool the liberals all of the time, but you can’t fool all of us for more than one term.
“Nearly two years ago, the political world could only marvel at the breadth of voter support for Barack Obama.”
Better would be:
Nearly two years ago, conservatives were remarking that the political world and dumbass voters could be bamboozled by Barack Obama.