Decline for Obama: Krauthammer Predicts Landslide Election Against Obama in 2012 (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on October 1, 2011
On Thursday, Pulitzer Prize–winning syndicated columnist and political commentator Charles Krauthammer warned, while participating on a “Special Report with Bret Baier” panel, that Pres. Barack Obama may face a record landslide election in 2012 if he can’t turn around his failures, his poor record.
“Landslide” — as in a huge, painful, crushing defeat.
Charles Krauthammer: Obama May Lose 2012 Election in a Landslide | September 29, 2011
Transcript of Krauthammer’s warning, h/t Real Clear Politics:
It’s a significant disparity if you compare excitement and enthusiasm that Democrats had for Obama in 2008, where he was near messianic, to now where he actually has a record and he’s rather mortal. There will be none of that enthusiasm again, it’s almost impossible. It had a lot to do in 2008 with the fact that he was almost entirely unknown and was extremely eloquent and was lightning in a bottle. That is never going to happen again. He’s got a record now and it’s a bad one. So there is no way that you can ever get near that.
But, I think even worse for Obama than the decline in the intensity of support among Democrats — because after all, where they are going to go — on election day they’ll be out there for him — is the number on independents. The number on independents is staggeringly bad — 31% approval of independents.
Obama won the election of 2008 on the basis of independents, and the first hint of trouble came in the off-year elections at end of 2009 in Virginia and New Jersey, where independents in states that had gone Obama went 2-1 against Obama. Then in the Senate race for the so-called “Kennedy seat” in January of 2010 the independents went 3 to 1 against Democrats. And I think if Obama cannot rise from the 31% approval he has among independents he is going to suffer a landslide.
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