“I hope Santorum wins it. Even if he can’t beat Obama, he’s the only candidate I can vote for and feel okay in my conscience. When I voted in the primary in my state, I just got a sick feeling when I looked at Romney and Newt. I felt like I was compromising and selling myself out by voting for them.”
As Rush has (accurately) said, mid-term elections are ALWAYS a referendum on the incumbent. It really doesn’t matter who the opponent is. So if the country is as angry at Obama as it was a year ago, Rick should have no trouble winning.
We have to be careful for what we wish for on this one. The polls I've seen show Obumwad with a 70+% personal approval rating, and just over 50% job approval. He does less well on the economic issues but what I find crazy is that as a party the 'Rats come our ahead of the 'Pubs in polls where the question is "trust to manage the economy". That is pretty remarkable and a strong indictment of the lack of intelligence of the average voter that a so-called President and party that has caused so much harm to the country would pull those kind of ratings. And he hasn't really started campaigning yet, at least not in his typical style. He'll be sitting on a huge mountain of illegally-raised cash for the campaign that he really hasn't tapped yet. This is going to be a tough battle, more so than most people on FR seem to think. Whoever the nominee is on our side, they're going to have to make a strong case for themselves, not just count on an anti-Obama landslide, because right now it doesn't look like that is shaping up.
And yes, I saw the one Gallup poll of the so-called swing states that showed Obama losing most of them to a "generic Republican". But generic Republican isn't running. As soon as you put a name in for generic Republican, the numbers change, and not for the better. I know in my state, one of the so-called swing states, Obama loses to generic Republican, but beats any other non-generic Republican.
The GOP was walking on sunshine in 1994 and failed to win the WH in 1996, so anything can happen, unfortunately.
Santorum can beat the community organizer on principal alone!