re: #84 oaktree
Don’t worry about that. There will be a nice funding of a left-wing “independent” candidate like Nader to run to siphon off a few percentage points from Obama to make up for it.
very possible
actually, though, i don’t expect the Big Breakup in the republican party to come in 2012. i expect the baggers to ostentatiously hold their noses and vote for romney, since another term for barack will obviously mean that homosexual illegal aliens will take over the united states and institute sharia communism