Who really thinks with the current GOP presidential field that Obama is 'toast'?
Unfavorable views of Mitt Romney have soared, doubts about Newt Gingrich remain widespread and Barack Obama has advanced to his highest personal popularity in more than a year — all in advance of the State of the Union address in which Obama makes his case for a second term.
Good point about how far off the election is. Newt went from 4th place to 1st place in a couple of weeks.
I think Obama has a good chance of being re-elected. The whole GOP field has big issues. It is almost like we choose the worst people to run, a emotionless technocrat, a philandering college professor with his hand in the till, an ultra-devout sweater vest wearer and a distant academic with little real world experience managing others or a budget.
Brokered convention? Jeb Bush riding in to save the day, executive experience, family connections, etc.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Obama has just as much a chance of getting re-elected as Jimmy- pass the peanuts Carter had in 1980.
Democrats were convinced they had it in the bag- and Carter was a shoe in.....
This is what the election looked like for Carter.....
BackgroundThrough the 1970s, the United States underwent a wrenching period of low economic growth, high inflation and interest rates, and intermittent energy crises.[2] Added to this was a sense of malaise that in both foreign and domestic affairs, certain people perceived that the nation was headed downward. By the beginning of the election season, the prolonged Iran hostage crisis had sharpened public perceptions of a national crisis.
Jimmy Carter was blamed for the Iran hostage crisis, in which the followers of the Ayatollah Khomeni burned American flags and chanted anti-American slogans, parading the captured American hostages in public, and burning effigies of Carter. Carter's critics saw him as an inept leader who had failed to solve the worsening economic problems at home. His supporters defended the president as a decent, well-intentioned man being unfairly attacked for problems that had been building for years.[1]
Sound familiar? While I don't think the map will look this red - Obama is toast- and anyone who thinks otherwise is living the same fantasy reality that the Carter supporters were living in 1980. 9 out of 10 people I talk to who say they voted for Obama - are now saying that they will not vote for him again.
