Bill Clinton told Bill O’Reilly Tuesday evening that he believes President Barack Obama’s reelection chances are “a little better” than 50/50.
When asked by the Fox News host whether 50/50 is a fair assessment of Obama’s reelection chances, Clinton said, “I think they are a little better than that.”
“Because his approval’s up in the last few weeks, and because of this payroll tax where he is for it and it looks like the House may not be,” Clinton said. “Their approval rating is down to 11 percent.”
The 42nd president noted that Obama is currently “out there running against himself.”
“As soon as he gets an opponent it will be for the next four years. Who do you think is more likely to take us in the right direction?” he said.
After asking a few questions about Newt Gingrich – about whom Clinton said, “I don’t disrespect anybody who works with me in good faith” – O’Reilly wanted to know whether the former president would ever vote for the former House Speaker.
“No. I’m going to vote for Obama,” Clinton said.
“Just take the president out of the equation … Why wouldn’t you vote for Newt Gingrich?”
“I can’t take that out of the equation,” he said. “I believe in a whole different direction in energy policy. I think the president has done a good job on foreign policy. And I think that we’ve got a better economic strategy now going than the one [Gingrich] is likely to implement.”
Tuesday’s interview was the first time Clinton has been on “The O’Reilly Factor.” The Fox News host admitted this had been a long time goal of his, and explained on the “Today” show on Monday how he convinced the former president to come on his show.
“Come on, we had Hillary in. I appealed to his manhood. I said, hey, we had your wife in. Come on,” he said.
At the end of the unedited version of the interview posted on the Fox News website, Clinton and O’Reilly joked about recommending the TV host for a Cabinet position in the Obama administration.
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One needs to take into account the concept of a “standard deviation”, meaning how certain one can be that a statistic prediction will be true. In this case, there are so many variable that any prediction of the 2012 election isn’t worth much.
Obama has no control over the European financial mess, the North Koreans or the Middle East. He has limited control over the Republicans and the domestic economy.
He isn’t voting for Obama, he is voting for his wife to get a second term. Lets be real.
He is voting Democrat regardless if his wife stays in or not. End of discussion.
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