If Obama does well, and demographic trends continue, is a landslide in 2012 likely?

[Ardent15]

Maybe I'm being overly optimistic, but the GOP are disorganized, in the minority, and generally despised in America's major metropolitan areas.

It will take a long time for them to lay the groundwork for another "Republican Revolution."

With America's immigrant, minority, and young voters rapidly growing, and the GOP base being largely stagnant or even decreasing, does anybody else think that the stars will align sufficiently for a 2012 landslide? Especially if Obama does well overall?

[Baikonour]

1. The GOP has no opposition that can take him.

Right now, a lot of people think Romney will be the nominee in 2012, but he stands no chance against Obama. His batshit crazy religion is a problem.

[BlooInBloo]

2. A certainty is more like it.

[Diane R]

3. I saw a 'Is it 2012 yet?' bumper sticker today. I loved knowing the driver was so miserable.

[Hawkowl]

4. Remember 1976

Who would have thought that the Rethuglicans could have come back from Watergate, the oil embargo and losing the Vietnam War? Jimmy Carter was not a bad president. He inherited a lot of problems and did not manage the media well. In addition, Reagan's dirty tricks deal with the Iranians to hold the hostages until after the election really finished Carter.

If President Obama can't get the economy under control in the next two years, the Rethugs with their control of the media will be back with a VENGEANCE and it will be the Democratic party that is utterly destroyed. There will be a lot of dirty tricks--especially if Obama gives the rethugs a pass on torture, and corruption. President Obama is our last best hope and he has chosen a non-confrontation approach with the Rethuglican party which is actively trying to destroy him with their control of the MSM. I hope the President knows what he is doing.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

5. If he goes down it will be of his own doing.

It would take something really stupid like a permanent assault weapons ban. That seems unlikely since Obama is apparently going to let the Bush decision to allow concealed handgun carry in National Parks stand.

David

[dysfunctional press]

6. 2012 is a LONG way away...and americans are EXPECTING change- for the better.

if things are still in the shitter- and they may very well be...AND if we don't have single-payer universal healthcare- he may be in some dire straits come 2012.

[Angleae]

7. Obama's hopes in 2012 go with the economy.

If it gets better, he wins (like Clinton in 1996), if it doesn't he loses (like Bush in 1992).

[mwb970]

8. If the republicans continue as they are now, the answer is YES.

The entire message of the repugnants right now is NO. That's it: one word, one syllable, two letters. NO. They expect to regain the majority by 2010, and the White House by 2012, by thwarting everything the president tries to do while calling him every bad name they can think of (I saw him called a MarxoFascist yesterday, a neat trick).

This is a president with a 70% approval rating who was just elected in a 365-electoral-vote landslide. The republicans believe that he must be "stopped", as spokesman Alan Keyes put it recently. 70% of Americans disagree, with the same tired 25% supporting the madness as always.

In some ways, the election aftermath is even more entertaining than the election itself was. The already overwhelming craziness of the wingnuts has been ratcheted up to levels never before seen. Where does it end?

[tavalon]

9. He's been handed an almost impossible job

If he even manages to keep this country together, then yes, we will have a landslide. But actually, we have far, far, far, bigger issues to look at than who wins the horse race in 2012.

I think a much more pertinent question would be, will we have a recognizable country by 2012? It's quite up in the air. I naively thought that once we got the chimp and his minions out, we could breath, but they left a freight train of a disaster that I'm not sure anyone is going to be able to stop or even slow down.

I'm a Cassandra and though it can be lonely, it helps me to be prepared. Thing is, I can't see the future right now and that is making me feel mighty antsy.

[ThomWV]

10. If all goes perfectly for the next 4 years the 2012 turnout will be low and the race close

What, you think stupidity will go away in 4 years?

[conspirator]

11. The world is in mess NOW, and you are thinking about 2012? Live the present nt