With Lame Duck Over, 2012 Campaign Begins

[firedupdem]

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/...f=politics

The 2012 presidential campaign is underway. There are some — including many voters — who will refuse to focus on 2012 until, oh, that very year.

But for political deal-makers and junkies, there is already much to consider. In less than six months, for example, as many as a dozen Republicans will crowd onto a stage for the first major debate of the campaign, their eyes on the G.O.P. nomination and the opportunity to face President Obama.

Already, the potential candidates are warily keeping track of polls that suggest that it will be no easy task to knock off the president, despite the many political challenges Mr. Obama has struggled to overcome in the past two years.

A recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found that the president would defeat all of the potential challengers the poll listed, if the election were held today. And that was before the president’s recent string of accomplishments in the lame-duck session of Congress — in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released on Wednesday, 56 percent of Americans said they supported how Mr. Obama had handled the lame-duck session. Those numbers remind the Republican hopefuls that defeating an incumbent president is never an easy task.

[Cha]

(12-23-2010 07:28 PM)firedupdem Wrote:  http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/...f=politics

The 2012 presidential campaign is underway. There are some — including many voters — who will refuse to focus on 2012 until, oh, that very year.

But for political deal-makers and junkies, there is already much to consider. In less than six months, for example, as many as a dozen Republicans will crowd onto a stage for the first major debate of the campaign, their eyes on the G.O.P. nomination and the opportunity to face President Obama.

Already, the potential candidates are warily keeping track of polls that suggest that it will be no easy task to knock off the president, despite the many political challenges Mr. Obama has struggled to overcome in the past two years.

A recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found that the president would defeat all of the potential challengers the poll listed, if the election were held today. And that was before the president’s recent string of accomplishments in the lame-duck session of Congress — in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released on Wednesday, 56 percent of Americans said they supported how Mr. Obama had handled the lame-duck session. Those numbers remind the Republican hopefuls that defeating an incumbent president is never an easy task.

And, so here we are..in place to work hard and do what we can to make sure the President is not lied out of serving another 4 years by the gopropaganda.

[Julie]

What Cha said....

[firedupdem]

They will be tripping over each other trying to figure out who can be the most anti-Obama. I don't think that strategy will serve them well. However, this country does have a very short memory, so we must do all we can to make sure that the truth is out there. We'll have to battle the media, and the fringe on both sides, every step of the way!

[Drunken Irishman]

The results from that NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll (no one even comes close to Obama, really):

Obama beats Romney 47-40 (7 points)
Obama beats Palin 55-33 (22 points)
Obama beats Thune 47-27 (22 points)

[Cha]

(12-23-2010 09:50 PM)Drunken Irishman Wrote:  The results from that NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll (no one even comes close to Obama, really):

Obama beats Romney 47-40 (7 points)
Obama beats Palin 55-33 (22 points)
Obama beats Thune 47-27 (22 points)

Aw gee..and the gopropaganda central/aka/corporatemedia is working 24/7 to make these idiots so palatable and President Obama so "arrogant".

[lamp_shade]

Any fool considering a run against President Obama, whether in a primary or otherwise, will have to face their biggest fear and must first ask him or herself this question: "Am I willing to debate this guy on television in front of the whole country?" I think most will say no thanks I'll wait.

[nofurylike]

WOOOHOO!! HERE WE GO!!!

THANK YOU for this news, firedupdem!!