Check it out.
Posted on 05/02/2011 9:58:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
On InTrade -- the prediction market site where people bet on various outcomes -- the odds Obama is re-elected exploded higher last night after the news of Osama Bin Laden's capture and death.
Check it out.
And this is the point where serious political analysts say things like: Well, it's a long way until the election and that it's ultimately the economy that will decide things.
And there's probably some validity to that. But obviously this was a huge moment for the President, and the contrast he can draw -- working on this plan for months -- compared to the other candidates is pretty sharp.
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Won’t last. When the news that the WH ordered “proper” burial for the Mass MURDERER becomes widely known he will tank again.
I would love for him to explain in a Presidential debate his decision to make sure OBL got a “proper” burial.
We all know that we are in for some sort of retaliation so the old cunard that they want to placate the Islamofascist will not fly.
Won’t last. When the news that the WH ordered “proper” burial for the Mass MURDERER becomes widely known he will tank again.
I would love for him to explain in a Presidential debate his decision to make sure OBL got a “proper” burial.
We all know that we are in for some sort of retaliation so the old cunard that they want to placate the Islamofascist will not fly.
It is a moment at which he should be asked if Bush’s enhanced interrogation techniques have been vindicated—and if Obama thus owes Bush a great apology for having demagogued the issue in the past.
Does not, he should be queried, Bush deserve kudos for having made the tough calls that finally led to this success?
you know its pretty bad going if it only takes a dead muslime to give ya a bump in the polls. LOLOL
His approval on this will depend on if he leaves Afghanistan and Iraq NOW.
If he stays, the left will HATE him for killing bin Laden (effectively: the war is over) and not getting out of Af & Iraq.
Will he stay or will he go?
Just ask these guys.
A milquetoast GOP candidate has no shot against Obama. And now I believe that Trump is a non-factor as well. The bottom line is, I just don’t see anybody in the GOP stacking up against Obama.
The ONLY shot is if somehow Palin can get her approval numbers up during the primaries, she is the only one that has any upside, and that’s iffy at best. There is no upside with the other candidates that I can see.
Churchill won a bloody war, and was immediately voted out.
This will be forgotten in a month. Zero has shot his load 17 months before the election.
Osama is not a big game changer,great news though. The war is far from over.
Special ops are the heros. They are the ones who have dedicated themselves
to our military and country.
The markets are not impressed. up +5 by 1:00pm est. Manufacturing has slowed in April, crude is still hovering at $114.
Obama gets cudo’s for not getting in the way
Yes, if the election were held today the people who can only focus for about 20 minutes might ensure that JugEars would be reelected.
But come November 2012, it will have been more than 20 minutes since our Navy Seals dispatched Obama bin Ladin to Pigland and JugEars will face the voters based upon his destruction of our economy. He’ll be toast unless the Republicans can yet again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by nominating a “compassionate”, squishy moderate.
That was my first thought, too — and THAT victory was in a WAR that 41 had a much greater role in executing. I don’t fault Obama, but he basically initialed a piece of paper letting Seal Team 6 go do its thing.
A powerful muslim contracting a hit on another powerful muslim. Whatever became of the ‘religion of peace’? Sad.
come see me when gas hits $6 per gallon this summer
RE: A year from now the economy will be worse and most people won’t even remember or care about Osama being killed.
A little over a year before the 1992 elections, Bush Senior’s approval ratings were close to 90% after the US crushed Saddam Hussein’s forces and drove him out of Kuwait.
Well look what happened in November 1992... Ross Perot came into the picture and Clinton convinced enough Americans that the mild recession was one of the worst in US history.
Bush Senior got 39% of the votes, Clinton got 43% and Perot got 19%.
A lot can happen in over a year.
Remarkably, no one at the office has even brought this up. Not a word.
I don’t think this is going to have the effect that Obama wants. There are bigger things at stake.
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