red states rule
08-10-2011, 03:47 PM
As the economy continues to sink, does anyone still think Obama is a shoe in for re-election?
After what may be the most politically punishing month of his presidency, President Obama is looking eminently beatable. And that is changing the nature of the Republican nomination fight
As Republican presidential hopefuls prepared for their first debate three months ago, the political world was convinced that after the daring raid just days before that killed Usama bin Laden (http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/osama-bin-laden-dead.htm#r_src=ramp), cooling anger over the 2010 Democratic health care (http://www.debatepolicy.com/#)law (http://www.debatepolicy.com/#)
(http://www.debatepolicy.com/#), modest, but steady economic growth and a billion-dollar campaign juggernaut in the making, Obama was a shoo-in for re-election.
Now, as the GOP field gets ready to rumble here in Iowa, Obama looks more and more like a one-term president.
After the first ever federal credit downgrade, a loss to House Republicans on a debt-ceiling deal, increasing outrage in the president’s political base, the deaths of 30 U.S. troops who were carrying out his tactical pivot in Afghanistan (http://www.foxnews.com/topics/afghanistan.htm#r_src=ramp), fresh warnings of a double-dip recession, and the most toxic political climate in Washington in memory, Obama is in a political tailspin from which he may never recover.
The president’s high after the bin Laden kill was not as high as Republican pessimists believed in May and the current low isn’t as low as the newly optimistic GOPers think it is now, but the president’s problems are real and, in many ways, intractable.
As Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke made clear Tuesday that the <NOBR>economic outlook (http://www.debatepolicy.com/#)</NOBR> is bad until at least 2013, the Afghan drawdown will <NOBR>continue (http://www.debatepolicy.com/#)</NOBR> to be costly and the president’s base will only grow more disenchanted as he attempts to find a center-left path through the budget battles just ahead
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/10/weakened-obama-changes-gop-race/#ixzz1Uf3CoQ9j
After what may be the most politically punishing month of his presidency, President Obama is looking eminently beatable. And that is changing the nature of the Republican nomination fight
As Republican presidential hopefuls prepared for their first debate three months ago, the political world was convinced that after the daring raid just days before that killed Usama bin Laden (http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/osama-bin-laden-dead.htm#r_src=ramp), cooling anger over the 2010 Democratic health care (http://www.debatepolicy.com/#)law (http://www.debatepolicy.com/#)
(http://www.debatepolicy.com/#), modest, but steady economic growth and a billion-dollar campaign juggernaut in the making, Obama was a shoo-in for re-election.
Now, as the GOP field gets ready to rumble here in Iowa, Obama looks more and more like a one-term president.
After the first ever federal credit downgrade, a loss to House Republicans on a debt-ceiling deal, increasing outrage in the president’s political base, the deaths of 30 U.S. troops who were carrying out his tactical pivot in Afghanistan (http://www.foxnews.com/topics/afghanistan.htm#r_src=ramp), fresh warnings of a double-dip recession, and the most toxic political climate in Washington in memory, Obama is in a political tailspin from which he may never recover.
The president’s high after the bin Laden kill was not as high as Republican pessimists believed in May and the current low isn’t as low as the newly optimistic GOPers think it is now, but the president’s problems are real and, in many ways, intractable.
As Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke made clear Tuesday that the <NOBR>economic outlook (http://www.debatepolicy.com/#)</NOBR> is bad until at least 2013, the Afghan drawdown will <NOBR>continue (http://www.debatepolicy.com/#)</NOBR> to be costly and the president’s base will only grow more disenchanted as he attempts to find a center-left path through the budget battles just ahead
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/10/weakened-obama-changes-gop-race/#ixzz1Uf3CoQ9j