One Yes or No question:

[impik]

Barack Obama wins the 2012 election?

[Toucano]

1. Let me call Miss Cleo...

my crystal ball is on the fritz.

[Clio the Leo]

6. Yes?

You rang? :)

... oh .... you want my COUSIN .... hang on. ......

[Toucano]

8. ROFL!

Good one!

[Honeycombe8]

9. LOL! nt

[sweetapogee]

11. it all

depends on the economy.

[Vincardog]

2. Does he beat Sister Sarah or JEB?

[xchrom]

3. Yes and I am indifferent about him. Nt

[nmbluesky]

4. Palin says, She can win in 2012

Really?

[rug]

5. Yes, the President is very good at campaigning.

[marlakay]

7. How about not sure???

If Bloomberg gets in the race with Joe pulling most of the middle and Obama's base is angry at him the right could possibly win. So I am thinking Obama is either going to decide to lose or treat the base better. And he'd better do it fast, a bunch of folks have already jumped ship.

[Honeycombe8]

10. Yes, because his favorables are amazingly high, considering how the election...

just went and how he's been just slammed by the media for months.

Two years for the healthcare bill to sink in, for people to see there's no big healthcare tax, no death panels, for the Dems to advertise it, etc. Or for the Republicans to repeal it.

Two years for job nos. to increase (they're already increasing, thank goodness, so Republicans can't be credited with these early increases).

Of course, anything can happen in two years.

[quakerboy]

12. 2 years is a long and uncertaint time.

I have no idea. I lean toward yes, but I strongly believe that a potential third party Perot type candidate could have a very strong running, if they were a good enough campaigner with a strong enough financial backing. But thats as things sit right at this moment.

Over the next 2 years, Obama could pull off some miracles, either by tacking left and being successful. Or by tacking left and becoming a loud forceful populist who the people believe will be successful if we give him more time. Or by actually being so eloquent that he convinces the Republicans to compromise and works out some solid middle ground. Or the economy could so completely collapse that you can buy a house for a loaf of bread, and the government cant even afford the paper and printing to hold elections by 2012.

Its a volatile world without much in the way of surety. I can tell you what I think the best bet is for Obama to get reelected. But at this point, I am not at all certain what 2012 will bring. It is both frighteningly close and yet almost unimaginably far off.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

13. Yes

My thinking is that if Fox News "Democrats" like Caddell and Shoen are calling on him to pledge NOT to run in 2012 (in their dreams :eyes:), it would seem pretty clear that they don't believe there is a Republican candidate, at least presently on the horizon, that can beat him in 2012 and that the only way for them to win is to shove Obama out of the way (or get us to do it for them) and have us end up with a damaged Democratic Party and a much weaker candidate going into the 2012 elections.