The electoral math does not add up:
"Obama to begin 2012 push in earnest" August 07, 2011|By Jackie Calmes, New York Times
WASHINGTON - After a month tied down in Washington by the bruising budget fight, President Obama will head to four battleground states this week and next, including a campaign-style bus tour in the upper Midwest, stumping with a new urgency as global economic fears darken his reelection prospects.
This is not going to go over well with people. The country is going down the toilet and he's going to go campaigning?
Fifteen months from Election Day, Obama is gearing up his reelection effort....
It's over a f***ing year away!
Obama’s approval ratings are below 50 percent in electoral battlegrounds such as Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, according to recent polls there. His party’s political infrastructure has been weakened in key states where Republicans won state houses last year, though the White House sees potential benefit in a reaction to the unpopular policies of new Republican governors in states, including Florida, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
Despite an intensive effort by the White House since November to recapture the political center, Obama continues to struggle to win back the support of moderate and independent voters, polls show.
Don't you liberals love being taken for granted? At least Repugs have to placate Tea Party right.
Having won with their help in 2008 in states where Democrats for years had not seriously competed - Indiana, North Carolina, Virginia, and some mountain states - Obama now will have to struggle not just to duplicate that feat but also to prevail in traditional swing states such as Pennsylvania.
The incumbent is going to get clobbered.
A Quinnipiac poll there last week had Obama running two percentage points behind a Republican rival, Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor - essentially a tie, since the difference is within the poll’s margin of error.
Meet the next president of the United States.
“You’d have to be anesthetized to be complacent, really, and not only because of economic circumstances,’’ said Geoff Garin, a longtime Democratic pollster. “There are clearly concerning signs in the polling data.’’
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The plan is to get the president out of Washington and into communities where he can try to show people, on a smaller scale, how the changes he has put into their local economies are helping....
Sigh
:-(
The level of self-delusion is scary.
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