Sarah Palin-Barack Obama gap melts to 1 point

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I don't see it that simplistically. When the economy is in the pits even a President's fans will be in the pits too. One should not expect a complex economy to rebound overnight. Swallowing the Messianic diatribe some opponents were chanting certainly has caused indigestion throughout.

Any 2012 Republican contender's worst nightmare would be to see the gradual shift in the economy from the current, albeit decreasing Red, to a steadier Black by campaign season 2012. And guess what? There's nowhere else to go but in that direction right now, and that is precisely where things are moving. Perhaps not fast enough, sure. As I've said it to the sour gripers, one man does not constitute the entire US Government.

If you want to use that same train of logic...

#1) Obama did not win the 2008 election by anything near a landslide.

#2) The financial crisis and stock market crash came to a head right before the election.

So who knows what might have happened if this occurred after rather than before the election? To suggest that Obama and the Democrats have a clear concrete mandate from a broad spectrum of America is absurd. They won the 2008 election for sure, but this a far cry from any notion that America has suddenly transformed into a left leaning liberal country starving for European style socialism. A huge chunk of the American electorate remains being unaffiliated independent voters and the country as a whole remains center right oriented. Far more Americans consider themselves conservative rather than liberal. Whether Obama and the far left spectrum of the Democratic party can govern without showing their true colors will determine whether they retain majorities in either house of congress in 2010 or the Whitehouse in 2012.

As an unaffiliated independent voter I prefer to see the House, Senate, and Whitehouse not be controlled by one party. It breeds arrogance and corruption no matter which party is in power.

He won by enough, as in previous elections. Your paranoid Obama-is-a far left politician logic hardly agrees with current events, but then again that could be merely a paranoid Right wing perspective and not your own.

If the practical political landscape (Republican and Democrat) gave us a highly partisan debate where one side was going to have hissy fits for whatever Obama did or didn't do, its natural to argue along lines that if Obama can't turn around the economy more than a natural improval... then he'd have something of a really difficult time to get reelected. Again, complex politics being what it is, means quite literally that things will not be this simple in 2012.

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As an unaffiliated independent voter I prefer to see the House, Senate, and Whitehouse not be controlled by one party. It breeds arrogance and corruption no matter which party is in power.

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I don't think there is any real significant difference between Republicans and Democrats, though they wish there still were.

Edited December 9, 2009 by Wacken