Tug of War anyoneFollow

Barry might not command as large a share of Jews this time around (and likely not as large a share of the popular vote in general), but I seriously doubt that he'll lose the majority after a few debates in which the GOP nominee repeatedly shoots himself in the foot on social issues.

He sounded to me like a spoiled brat. What I wonder is how much influence he may still have on the Jewish communities that he implied his command over??

Mostly though, I think Obama's re-election is going to come down to the economy and more specifically the job count.




Edited, Sep 19th 2011 4:35pm by Elinda

Hardly. The attention span of the american public is short (thanks Spongebob!). It's a year+ til elections.

I don't think so. At least the names are pronounced differently. Koch bros pronounced 'Coke' and former Mayor of NY pronounced 'Kotch'.

Gotcha. Yeah, I know nothing about them (either of them) except that they exist and people think they run the world using shadow puppets. Or was it shadowy corporations? I hope it's the first; being ruled by a king of shadow puppetry is kind of awesome.

Didn't you leave, or something?

Edited, Sep 19th 2011 12:50pm by Eske

That and any plan the GOP will (or has) put out relies on riding the backs of entitlement programs, social safety nets and other programs designed to help the lower and middle class. Witness Ryan's budget or the GOP frontrunner Rick "Monstrous Lie/Ponzi Scheme" Perry.

This only works if the people who are the reason the GOP handily won the whole "no new taxes" debate forget the more important issue. Obviously, it's going to come down to perception changes between now and then, but it's entirely possible that he'll have so worn out that line by then that all it'll get is groaning and "OMG, he's not really trying that line again!?" responses from the public.

It's a pretty transparent line. And frankly, the GOP can play the same game, only with a stronger hand. They can point to numerous plans they have put forth (and presumably will continue to put forth over the next year), then point to the Dem controlled senate refusing to vote on them, and Obama insisting on vetoing them, and say that they were the ones with the plans to fix the economy, without needing to raise taxes, but the Dems were the party of "No", and Obama was the president of "No".

No one's going to fail to grasp that both sides have very different ideas about how to deal with our current economy and both sides will insist that "their plan" is the right way to go. If your whole campaign rests on just saying that over and over, it's not going to work very well. At some point, people are going to have to choose which plan they think is better. And given that the Dems so far haven't really put anything forth that isn't just a rehash of what didn't work in 2009/2010, they're going to have a hard time claiming that this time their plan would work, while the GOP's wouldn't.


It's just a double hardship on the economy that I don't think they can overcome.

They passed a budget that would lower unemployment to 2%!

roflirony

I'm in this boat. There's no one in the bunch that's as appealing to me as McCain was in '08.

NY-9 isn't in the Bronx.

Edited, Sep 20th 2011 2:36pm by lolgaxe