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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.
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Points taken, but on the flip side Obama is going to have to come up with something better than “my policies may not be working out quite the way I planned, but things would be FAR WORSE if we go back to the failed policies that got us here” if he thinks he has any chance of being re-elected.
Well, they certainly don't impress me. But I fully expect Obama to play this card a lot for two reasons. One, it fires up his base. Its always good for a boost to his base for Obama to spew some hate Bush rhetoric. Second, another poll I recall seeing showed that a majority of those surveyed, something like 55%, still blamed Bush for the economic problems we face. The sheeple seem to be more than willing to write off four or five trillion in debt added by Obie as somehow still being Bush's fault. While I don't think Obama is very smart on most things, he can sense and use voter hatred, so he's going to play this over and over to tap that lingering hatred of Bush, and also deflect blame for his own failures. It wouldn't work with almost anyone else but Obama, which is one reason why he has that 70+% personal approval rating. For some reason, in the vacuous minds of the sheeple, the fact that they "like" Obama trumps any policy failures, even bankrupting the country. It is utterly amazing to me that this would be happening, and very, very disheartening.