A presidential reelection campaign needs three key elements: a defense of the incumbent’s record, a successful effort to define the opposition and a compelling vision of a second term.
President Obama may well celebrate a second term in Chicago next month, but the conventional wisdom underestimates the difficulty he faces, as his campaign has distinct problems with all three elements.
His defense of his record is exceptionally weak, his effort to define Mitt Romney is nearly exhausted, and his vision for the next four years — perhaps the most important — has been largely missing from his effort this year.
Defense of the incumbent’s record
Four years ago, Obama expressed great confidence that he would be running amid renewed prosperity; he famously told Matt Lauer, “One nice thing about the situation I find myself in is that I will be held accountable. You know, I’ve got four years…If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition.”
In February 2009, even most Republicans would probably have predicted that by 2012, the country would be feeling much more prosperous, with much lower unemployment.
Read More at nydailynews.com. By Jim Geraghty.
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Well, geez, he was NEVER TOGETHER IN THE FIRST PLACE! He was, is, only a peice of mud, held together by the likes of PigLousy, Sorrows, and Withholder, and none of them are worth the time it would take to glue their faces on. Soros is a billionaire, but still, a crappy communist and should have been put out of our misery long ago. The others aren’t even one good human being between themselves, and this Disease, this Disaster in office is made of pure outhouse mud, so “falling apart”? Ya think? Mud, when it’s dry, does this, it crumbles, and becomes what it was to begin with, just plain old dirt. In the case of Obutthole, he was dirt from underneat someone’s outhouse, and that being so, is not only mud, but Diseased mud! And disease spreads, it becomes a plague, like the plague that he has unleashed upon the American people. We will be well rid of this Toxic Disease in November, if we can just eradicate him, and his fellow Diseases then…………..Romney needs to have the White House fumigated, and cleaned from top to bottom, and he needs to use some strong Disinfectant when he does so.