re: #1 Bobibutu

With the near future poised to make 2008 look like a mild financial downturn (Euro tanking will take out U.S. Banks and brokerage houses as well), plus OWS, Obama has the opportunity to do something great, make a profound mark in history and win by a landslide. I hope he does - I think the political will to act and risk at that level is lacking.

I hope so, too. But I struggle to see anything happening when the GOP simply refuses to allow anything positive to happen in any aspect of anything they have involvement in. Their win is far more important than the country.

And the last poll I read (yesterday) showed Obama’s approval rating on an upward trend almost at 50% (which is still quite low, but when you have the GOP congress in single digits 47% is huge.)