re: #59 palomino

I wish I was as optimistic as you guys. Historically presidents don’t often get reelected when the economy sucks. And there’s little hope of a major recovery between now and late 2012…this is, after all, the worst recession by far since the Great Depression. I think a lot of voters who are suffering economically will just say, “Well, Obama had his chance and things haven’t gotten much better, so I’ll give the other guy a chance, even if he’s a little extreme.” That’s not a particularly intelligent way of looking at it, but our electorate isn’t necessarily all that bright.

I would add something to that. President’s don’t often get reelected when the economy sucks and they are personally disliked and they have an intra-party challenge and a strong opponent. So far all of these things are not true for Obama. If you look at history, you find most if not all of those things happened to presidents that lost reelection. Obama has a fight coming, but so does the GOP.