With today marking the one-year countdown to Election Day 2012 and his approval rating stuck in the low 40s, President Obama will have to defy American electoral history if he is to win re-election.You know what the Dems did wrong in 1972? They nominated a bad candidate. That should be a lesson to the GOP about 2012.
At 43 percent approval in a Gallup poll conducted Oct. 28-30, Mr. Obama recently referred to himself as an “underdog” — with good reason. Of all the presidents since World War II whose job-approval scores were lower than 50 percent one year before Election Day, only one went on to win a second term.
That was President Nixon, whose job approval stood at 49 percent in November 1971. He rebounded to defeat Democrat George McGovern in a landslide in 1972.
Sunday, November 06, 2011
One Year From Today Can Be The End of An Error
The 2012 presidential election will take place one year from today:
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I see it as 52 weeks from Tuesday.
I wouldn't put it past this admin. to compile a list of executive orders that would
1. be political suicide if enacted before the 2012 elections.
2. be difficult for the successor to repeal.
For example; could Obama give a huge swath of federal land in the path of the Keystone XL pipeline to an Indian tribe by decree?
I meant the above post to be in respect to Obama's potential lame-duck session. He could be very dangerous from 11/12 to 1/13.
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