Well... CONSERVATIVES understand it's a big, fat failure, but to the burgeoning parasite class, he's King, and to the average voter in the dumbed-down, marginally aware American electorate, he's "acceptable."
I don't buy the "Obama wins close or loses big" theory. Obama would have to lose states the GOP hasn't won in a generation.
Y'mean like Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Florida? Yeah, 2008 blue states wasted by the decrepit Bush/McCain abortion, states that never went republican before, right? Howsabout pulling your head out of rectal defilade and looking at the bright side for a change.
My favorite nephew is a forty year old extremely successful professional living in Boise, ID and this was his point precisely. He's using it as an excuse to buy up every gun he ever wanted before Jan 20th 2013. Well, I understand his motivations because I have a wife, too. But I keep telling him to remember the old movie Kelly's Heroes. Remember the Donald Sutherland character who was playing the stoned out hippy-ish Tank Commander (Odd Ball)? That guy kept chastising those around him to stop putting out negative waves because they invariably lead to self fulfilling prophesies of the very B-A-D sort. That holds true here as well.
If we subconsciously have Obama voted back into office it's going to happen -- either because we can get behind Mittens or because we somehow have Obozo tapping into supernatural powers that he doesn't possess but can't be overcome. I remember Jimmy Carter's 30 point lead over Reagan in April before the election. And I remember the landslide win for Ronnie. At that point, we could have run the Cookie Monster and he'd have beat Carter just as easily and I feel that way now because as was pointed out in this article, Obozo's negatives and positives are far different (and more difficult) than Carters. SO (~roaring~) ENOUGH with the negative waves, already! And maybe somebody can post that youtube clip since I can't (server blocked).