Newt Gingrich, The Ship Be Sinking

He's been saying it since before taking office.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/12/07/obama-economy-worse-improves/

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/07/politics/main4652726.shtml

"The economy is going to get worse before it gets better," he said twice in the early moments of the interview, taped Saturday in Chicago.

Don't forget the biggest one-day cash loss in Wall Street history was Sept. 29, 2008 - the day the House failed to pass Bush's bailout plan.

 

In a poorly written story whose tenor doesn't match the hed, the Tennessean reports Obama beats all GOP hopefuls in Tennessee...

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110619/NEWS/306190050/Obama-holds-lead-over-GOP-hopefuls-Tennessee?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

...not a good sign for the Republicans.

 

Basically sums up the all dearest hopes of Rightwing Nation.


Ergo, all their constructive efforts to make anything better.

 

The economy is not going to nosedive for the next 7 months. If anything, we will see fits and starts with unemployment slowly going down. The recovery has now lasted longer than the recession.

 

To further your point ....

In Perry's home state, Texas, Perry has 54 percent approval. Obama: 51 percent. Actually within the margin of error of 3.7 percent.

http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2012-presidential-election/poll-obama-almost-as-popular-as-perry-in-texas/

 

There are polls that have the generic Republican winning and polls that have Obama winning. At this point these polls are beyond meaningless. The numbers that really matter are the economic indicators.

 

I'm curious, Carlton: Would you trade a 5 percent national unemployment rate if it means another Obama term?

 

In terms of traditional political philosophies, Barack Obama is the "generic republican."

 

A REAL 5 percent unemployment rate could crown him king.

 

Which may indicate that Obama's biggest opponent next November may not be the Republican nominee and Republicans eager to send Obama packing, but the Democrats' core constituencies that feel betrayed and stay home, if not out of spite than out of apathy, wondering why they should take the time to vote when they're going to get screwed regardless of the outcome.

It's a Catch-22 for Obama. Unlike their GOP counterparts, the Democrats' core constituencies don't vote in large enough numbers to win a Presidential election (or even a state election outside of the Northeast Corridor and West Coast states) without winning independent votes by a sizeable margin. Bush II won re-election in 2004 despite losing independents by 1 point. No way a Democrat could get away with that.

The problem is, the more a Democratic candidate towards the middle to capture that independent vote, the more pissed off the base gets, and the more likely it is to stay home.

 

The base will not be staying home.

The Koch brothers, Scott Walker, John Kasich and Rick Scott have pretty much guaranteed that.

 

Right, because the democratic base sat out the 2010 elections... :