Obama has the the blacks, the hispanics, the liberal whites, people who are disgusted with the phony Republican party, the gay crowd, and the youth. Tell me, which voting blocks are going to oust him from office? The old white men group and a handful of young Republicans? LOL I do admire the optimism I see here, though.
Well said. In November, the voters thought someone, even tea party people could do a better job than the incumbents, which is really what that election was about. Now the choice is between [the ideas of] their own incumbents, and people still more crazy. Obama is a shoe-in.
What would they stand for, fiscally? Tax increases, tax reductions, spending increases, spending reductions, or some combination of all those? Or someone who takes one of those variables out of the equation, "no discussion on it allowed"?
Using your exact same logic - how will the November 2012 election be different for the Presidential incumbent ?
Depends entirely and completely on the economy - which I cannot predict. The fact that recently most economists have downgraded their forward estimates and the metrics look shittier than they did in November of 2010 tells me that Obama is in for a difficult time of it. In terms of where job growth remains strongest (outside Washington, DC) the metrics certainly do not favor progressive Democratic Party governance and policies: