should obama go on vacation and stop campaigning, considering who he will be...

[RON]

...running against, hes a shoe in? unless the republicans come to there senses and reality and run a person with some intelligence and mainstream ideology, without the no to everything the do nothing house, without the rhetoric of the tea party and gop, obama will have a landslide victory. 65% to 75 % of voters want higher taxes on the rich are no republicans listening, this is mainstream.
tod m u tink?
lin i hope you are wrong . i think the far right nothing will change them they are zombies.,but the middle sees what the house debt limit faisco was and they blame the reps and understand the republicans have obstructed and stopped everything obama has tried. at least i hope they have a brain.the house promissed jobs and delivered rhetoric nothing else.

 

[JonahsWhaleFakeName]

I know right. I am tired of working hard, lets just tax the people who already did the hard work and they can pay our way.

 

[DebraH]

While it is true that the republicans seem to be having a hard time fielding a great candidate.. they do have a couple who are good.. gingrich, Paul and Romney.

So we may find that the voters will do what they did when obama won.. VOTE ANYONE BUT THE PRESIDENT! People are fed up and sick of Obama's many excuses and his push to turn this into a socialistic, bordering on communist country. they are sick of his lies and constant campaigning while never getting anything done.

So the vote may come as a big surprise to some.

Barry knows what's happening, why do you think he is working so hard this last bit of his administration.. he is afraid.. and using all the dirty tricks he can think of to make sure he wins. I hope not.. the country cannot withstand another term of him!

 

[todm]

these political questions are often only designed to create conflict.

 

[Bryan]

Pontificate all you like. Personally I will wait for the actual election results and then we will see who is right, or wrong on what the voters actually want. I heard these same arguments before the last midterm and we know how that turned out. As for Obama, campaigning and vacationing are the only things he does well.

 

[linlyons]

No he shouldn't.
Never underestimate the power of money.
90% of the time, whoever promises the largest tax cut wins.
And the republicans are going to promise the largest tax cut.
If the economy was just average, it would then be a 50:50 chance.
But the economy is not going to recover, and 75% or more are asking why.
Obama is going to have an uphill battle.

If that's not enough, consider congress.
If all he has is republicans to deal with, then he's not going to get any liberal legislation passed.
He needs to convince voters not only to vote for him, but also to vote for enough democrats that he has a chance to get anything done.
Clearly the "Make Obama a 2 term president" isn't going to fly very high.
But we can assume that the radical right energizing term will be, "2016 is the real time for hope and change."
Or something to that effect.
I doubt that the obstructionism in congress will change much at all.
In that light, Obama really does need to campaign.
Maybe harder than ever.

Consider, Clinton said that he and Gingrich made a deal.
Republicans got a tax cut and Clinton got student aid and several other things he wanted.
Today, the head of the republican caucus is not able to muster enough republican votes for any deal.
That is not going to bode well for a successful 2nd term for Obama.

If Obama loses, then there's a problem.
The house will remain republican, and the senate will have a majority, but not 60 votes.
Stopping any of the radical legislation that the republicans put forth will depend on the democratic minority supporting filibusters.
The republicans then only need to really target enough senators to override a filibuster.
That's less than 10 of them.
The election in 2014 will then be the most senatorially expensive ever, and then there's a reasonable chance that there will be a republican super majority in the senate.
And the republicans can muster enough money that, if they really decide to, they can smear candidates into unelectability.
If that happens, you can effectively kiss medicare and medicaid goodby.
There's a reasonable chance that the effort to privatize social security will come close to being successful.
Taxes on the middle class and below will be raised and taxes for the very rich will be lowered.

Obama NEEDS to campaign harder than ever.

 

[realisticgirl]

He is in Australia, trying to protect our trade routes.

Ask Mrs Bachmann why she doesn't stop campaigning and deal with the mess in Washington. That is her job.