I believe you answered your question at the beginning with the 51%.This is the huge problem when a large number of that % can vote legally or illegally.
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Very easy to answer - we have 51% of the population in America that apparently LIKE wealth redistribution - they pay NO income taxes. Add to that the slave guilt complex in this nation and he WILL be reelected. The only hope conservatives have is to take the Senate and increase our number of seats in the House, then stop him in his tracks. Since he ignores the Constitution and only enforces the laws that Congress passed and prior Presidents signed into law, he WILL HAVE TO BE IMPEACHED. This will be possible if conservatives have enough House members. I do not see the numbers indicating that he will be thrown out. Approval index SHOULD be down around -30 by now.
Just my opinion. Why are his approval numbers still this high, with all the destruction this guy has brought upon us.
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Believe it or not, Gallup actually had Jimmy Carter’s job approval numbers as high as 58% in January 1980, the year he was up for re-election. Then as voters started to pay closer attention to the upcoming election and ask themselves Reagan’s famous question: “Are we better off now than we were four years ago?”, Americans were finding themselves increasingly anxious and at odds with the nation’s rising unemployment, soaring inflation and interest rates, high gasoline prices and shortages, stagnant GDP, and international crises. These are pretty much the same issues Obama faces today, in addition to exploding debt and deficits, failed costly stimulus plans, increased government intervention and takeover of private industries, the erosion of our personal liberties, and a VERY unpopular Obamacare law.
We all know what happened to Carter in November 1980 and history is on pace to repeat itself. If the next presidential election were held today, I’m convinced Obama would lose in a LANDSLIDE hands down. Again, what exactly can he say he has done that would possibly galvanize a majority of the American people? Poll after poll shows that Americans are overwhelmingly VERY unhappy with the current direction of this country. Millions voted in Obama in 2008 because the media portrayed him as a messianic-like figure unlike anything we had ever seen before. In the process, these gullible people fell in love with the idea of wanting be a part of history by voting in the first (half) black president. Well, that will not be enough to win this time around. Obama now has a record and a very horrible one at that. The bloom is off the rose and his novelty has long worn off.
Barring a miraculous economic turnaround between now and November 2012 (which I absolutely don’t see happening because Obama is a committed Keynesian Marxist who is married to his radical left-wing ideology), there is no way Hussein gets re-elected in 2012. I just don’t see it. And it’s probably all the more reason I get so annoyed when I see fellow Freepers constantly wringing their hands about how we can’t beat Obama and the Democrats.