1st off, you quote a far right newspaper;secondly, look at below polls & weep; with Romney SO gaffe prone (IE, "I don't care about the poor" ) the margins betqween him & BHO will widen.

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And not in any specific order...........
1. Price of gas
2. unemployment number
3. Dow Industrials

If you want Romney, you want $5 gas, which is being projected by some experts. You want a high unemployment number, and again certain experts are projecting an 8.9% unemployment rate by end of year. And if you really want Romney, hope that the Europeans do something really really really stupid.

Am I giving the impression that I want the economy to tank so Obama loses? Gosh No! That would be like the liberals hoping for Bush's failure in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But, I'll lay off you if you can produce your "DUKE B.A."------------ROFLMFAO !

Looks like Obama is going to live up to that Jimmy Carter comparison

One term President.

How many reasons do you want.  

Hope and change, been there, been screwed by that.

Health care, court rules just before the election. He is screwed on this.

Unemployment, still through the roof.  

Even according to your link, if a sitting POTUS is close in the polls, then he is screwed. Undecideds tend to break for the guy not in office 2/1.

Poor, poor, Priap...l

Poor little boy....

Well, you know the rest

I hope Obama and his re-election team are a little nervous about Romney. My fear is that Obama might be a little too overconfident about his re-election chances.

Clearly, when reading the full context of his comments, he does care about the very poor and will continue the programs in place that help them.  But, in today's sound-byte world, the only thing that people will read about are the first few words of his comments and those will appear in almost every ad President Obama puts out from here to November.

But, overall polls don't come close to telling the story in the general election. It all comes down to the electoral college and the swing states.  And that is the only thing Romney can hope for in his challenge to win the election.  He has to hope that the President's big numbers are all concentrated in just a few states, like Illinois, California, New York, etc.

Again, it will all boil down to a few key swing states, namely Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan.  And if the economy continues its uptick over the next few months, at least a couple of those -- and maybe a few smaller ones -- will fall into the Obama column and we'll be stuck with four more years of what will be -- in his second and uncontested term -- one of the most liberal Presidential terms of the last century.

rule against the costly Obamacare bill.  And when it rules in favor of it, that will be a huge boost for his re-election hopes.

While I agree with your op in general and I don't want the 3 conditions you outlined; I think several things could happen to trigger a change in the POTUS.

Gas could go to $5 or $4 to 5 dollars based on a number of factors. One being a big up-tick in the world economy and a deteriorating condition in Iran.

Unemployment could go either way at this point, but that won't mean the DOW will go down.

As for Afghanistan, I think in 2 years the Taliban will be back in power and things will be pretty much as they were before the war.

If you haven't checked lately we lost that war by most standards.

I suspect that Obama does respect Romney's ability to put up a strong fight, but is more nervous about the economic variables St. Croix mentioned.  Obama probably does feel positively about the imbalance in the money he takes in from small donors vs. Romney.

saying that there is an adequate safety net for the very poor. If he'd talk to anyone who runs a food bank, works at a Salvation Army or Union Station, they'd set him straight about the condition of the safety net.

shouild name an award after you. By way how was your trip with your buddies or can we say your trip was staying in your mother's basement, lol at you 10 times,

hmmm.. let's see..at some point intime the O will be asked about what he has done to correct the housing crisis?  lots of talk..nothing much happening.
he'll be asked about his plan to bring doen unemployment?  lots of talk not much result...go ask the millions that have been on the rolls for months/years.
he'll be asked about "paying your fair share"..his idea of taxing the rich...do i remember correctly his sec treas actuall skippe dout on paying his income tax correctly?
and someday he'll be asked ...oh hell all you butt licking progressives...formerly leftists, will just blame it all on bush......how long can u with a straight face utter that line?

Posted By: Priapus53

1st off, you quote a far right newspaper;secondly, look at below polls & weep; with Romney SO gaffe prone (IE, "I don't care about the poor" ) the margins betqween him & BHO will widen.

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and I don't think he's doing that on minimum wage..

is going to after 8 years of O'what'sanotherTrillion?.

Till then, you're a chicken.

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But, I'll lay off you if you can produce your "DUKE B.A."------------ROFLMFAO !

While I question Obama's solution to the problem, there is no questioning that he wouldn't have this problem to solve were it not for W. Bush's 8 years of de-regulating the Federal Gov't regulatory agencies (FFIEC, SEC, OCC, NCUA, OTS, etc.).

It is traditional that Administrations pass controversial and more unpopular legislation early, which is one reason health care was on the docket so soon after he took office.

I think how the court rules really does not matter in the re-election. If they rule against it, he loses his key gem of his first term which is bad, if it stands, then the public gets a fresh reminder of the agenda he pushed against what the majority wanted. Why do you think the house fell so hard after that.

On a more personal note, I think the Justices HATE Obama because of the way he dissed them at the State of the Union a few years ago. Trust me, that stunt is not forgotten. I think they are going to sick this legislation up his ass in retribution.

making history and creating a legacy for themselves as the narcissistic President Obama is. They are more interested in following the letter of the law and doing what is right, all personal feelings aside.  

I think the Healthcare act will survive this challenge and be another thing for Obama to gloat about come September.