It has taken months of bad news, but Democrats increasingly believe that President Obama might just lose his re-election bid.
The latest wake-up call comes in the form of a New York Times/CBS poll showing Republican Mitt Romney in the lead not just among registered voters overall, but with women and independents.
The Times/CBS survey is unique in that the pollsters called back the same phone numbers they had a month before. In April, Obama and Romney were dead even. Now, Romney leads by 3 points overall. That’s still within the margin of error — a statistical tie.
But the shifts with women, moderates and independents are all statistically significant. Obama lost 5 points with each of those demographics.
Team Obama has for months been warning Democrats not to be overconfident and warning of a close election, with the president increasingly sounding the alarm for donors and activists in recent campaign appearances.
Since the general election season kicked off in earnest in the last week of March, Obama has had an almost unbroken string of losing weeks, starting with his overheard conversation with former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
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Assuming the economy doesn’t crash (and what happens overseas is critical, and beyond Obama’s control), and assuming no foreign policy disasters, Obama will probably win. Very few presidents have been denied reelection absent a serious disaster of their own making (or at least for which they can be blamed).
How could Barck Obama man even run for reelection?
How is it that this man is not so utterly embarrassed of his record on his utter and complete failure at everything he’s done that he does’nt just do the decent thing and moe out of the way to give somone else a shot at fixing up this country?
B’ezrat HaSh-m, his toayva marriage statement, so widely praised by the toayva community and the radical left, will NOT find favor with middle America, including not even with middle of the road Democrats.
Let us hope the American people truly are smart enough to realize that nobama is the worst pres. in history and must be voted out!
Being the narcissist he is, he said the poll is flawed.
Akuperma, the economy now is much worse than the one 20 years ago that saw George H.W. Bush off.