Things are looking up for Barack Obama.

[pgodbold]

"Based on the facts at hand right now, Mr. Obama is likely to win the 2012 election in a landslide. That, at least, is the prediction of Ray C. Fair, a Yale economist and an expert on econometrics and on the relationship of economics and politics." - NYT

Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/business/21stra.html

All roses - The end is near. Roller coaster Tuesday

[notesdev]

1. not according to this

Lowest ever: Obama job approval sinks to 39%, as even Democrats' support melts away

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/11/obama-romney-palin.html

[sharp_stick]

4. It's a fucking Zogby online poll

written up by a blog that in itself is written by a Drudge wannabe hack.

If there was ever a chance to say WTF is with the moronic polling going around this one is a real reason why polling has become the bastion of idiots over the last several years.

on edit typos

[yellowcanine]

7. Predictions based on economic models have historically been far more accurate than polls.

And any poll 2 years out is meaningless.

[zbdent]

2. New York Times? You mean the "bastion of liberalism" which kept its

pages clean of the fact that the Bush administration was spying on U.S. citizens illegally, until well after the election where such a Nixonian revelation might have hurt George W. Bush's chances for "re"-election?

Don't expect the "praise" for Obama to last long ... whoops, it might have already passed ...

[OHdem10]

3. 29 Million Obama voters did not vote. Will continuing to appease

Republicans bring them out in 2012. I do no know.

[elocs]

5. Governments are elected by those who care enough to show up and cast their votes.

Those who choose to not vote chose not to have a voice in who gets to govern, and that's simply stupid and lazy.

[emulatorloo]

6. Historically turnouts in midterms are lower than presidential ones.

So you have to take that into account. Yes it is a issue.