Why The Republicans Are Likely To Pluck Defeat From the Jaws of Victory In 2012

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This is an opinion piece from the political blog, The Moderate Voice. I agree with the author's analysis. Go here to read it.

Excerpt below:

A year ago, Obama’s chances of re-election seemed iffy. In returning control of the House to the GOP in the mid-term elections, voters rode a wave of Tea Party rancor and sent a message to Washington: They were frustrated and angry over how big government was messing with their lives, and with voters in general becoming more conservative, Republicans smacked their lips over a potentially big pick-up for their party and its alarmingly shrinking base.

It was a seminal moment for a party that not surprisingly had received a drubbing in 2008 following the eight dark years of the Bush-Cheney interregnum. The only surprise was that the next occupant of the Oval Office would be a young African-American upstart from Illinois who not unlike the Tea Party seized both the moment and the imagination of many voters.

With the economy still in the crapper and unemployment hovering around 14 million because of the lingering effects of the Great Recession, Obama’s chances of being re-elected would seem even dimmer than a year ago, yet the Republican Party has made four tactical decisions that virtually guarantee Obama will be a two-term president.

 

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