If no one decides to challenge Obama in a primary, how disappointed will you be?

[MrScorpio]

On a scale of 1 to 10.

And if this hypothetical non-primary were the case, what's your fall back plan?

Just wondering.

[pnwmom]

1. Not disappointed and not expecting a challenger. They're all smart enough

to know that Obama didn't have any easy way out of the default mess, and to know that it's too late to raise the money and get a well-functioning campaign organization going.

My fall-back is to support Obama because any of the Rethugs would have been worse.

[Skip_In_Boulder]

2. +1

[hlthe2b]

3. Admittedly...

1. I am pragmatic about this since the last thing I want is the RETHUGS back in the White House. 2. That said, I am less than satisfied with Obama at the same time I give him wide latitude for the unparalleled challenges he has faced.

So, when I weigh #1 against #2 and factor in the very high likelihood that a primary challenger will only bloody Obama (and all the down stream Dems) further, making #1 the likely outcome, I just can't hope for a primary challenger. Not that my kneejerk response is against the idea, but only because I fear the consequences of a primary fight. I will support Obama or whomever is our Dem candidate, but I fully expect that it will be Obama. Am I disappointed if there is no primary challenger? No... I think most of the competitive challengers see the folly in this.

[FirstLight]

19. +100

i totally agree! i'm upset and discouraged...but we need to try i guess to hope obama can pull it out of the bag...

[abq e streeter]

4. Not at all. Resigned to the fact that he will be the nominee,

and that with the only alternative allowed by our two wings of the one corporate party system being infinitely worse, my vote for Obama will be reluctant, but something that , in my view, absolutely has to be done.
Not sure what you mean by the fall back plan, but maybe the above is what you meant(?)

[LoZoccolo]

5. 1: not at all! n/t

[mmonk]

6. I still have my congressional rep I can vote for on the federal level.

That's about it though. For the Senate, it's a New Democrat vs a Republican. Since they both were for the deal, maybe they can make up things they can disagree on.

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[SusanaMontana41]

8. We need those debates. I will be disappointed. n/t

[Liberal Veteran]

9. I fully support a challenge to Obama in the primary....

....by a gene spliced clone candidate grown from the DNA of FDR, Jesus, and Teddy Roosevelt.

Otherwise, I'm pretty much throwing my support behind Obama.

:)

[Tx4obama]

10. Obama DOES have a primary challenger.

There IS a formally declared Obama challenger

His name is Randall Terry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012#Democratic_Party

[Smarmie Doofus]

13. Not a real DEM. nt

[Tx4obama]

15. None the less he will be challenging Obama in the primary. n/t

[MrScorpio]

16. Just not very well nt

[Smarmie Doofus]

11. 10.

I am sick of him and won't pretend otherwise.

Fall-back plan: if the election is a runaway GOP route... and it will be if we foolishly renominate this incumbent... I'll consider my options.


And I won't announce it here.

[tammywammy]

12. 0, there won't be a legitimate challenger to Obama. n/t

[LWolf]

14. Disappointed? 10. Surprised? 1.

Fall back plan? For what?

[in_cog_ni_to]

17. 10..... n/t

[whatchamacallit]

18. 10X10X10X10X10X10X10... n/t

[Rageneau]

20. Disappointed = 8.5; Suprised = 0.01