Do you think that Obama will face a primary challenger from the left?

[LoZoccolo]

[Liberal Veteran]

1. No.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. No.

[mdmc]

3. what is this left you speak of?

[monmouth]

4. No..

[Enrique]

5. no

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. No.

[pnwmom]

7. Not from a Democrat and not in a primary.

But Nader could still run from the left, and I'm sure some Green candidate will run.

[robcon]

8. NO

n/t

[Youth Uprising]

9. I hope so...

I doubt it.

[NorthCarolina]

10. Sadly, no. nt

[abelenkpe]

11. not at this moment

but there is still time to make blunders and alienate people. Hoping that wont happen :)

[girl gone mad]

12. Bloomberg running as an Independent, maybe.

What a sad state of affairs when a former Republican billionaire Wall Streeter is more liberal than our Democratic president.

[JTFrog]

19. What a pantload. n/t

[BzaDem]

21. He is far to the right of Obama on economic policy. He thought financial regulation went way too far

as well as other policies (healthcare, etc.)

[girl gone mad]

25. He opposed TBTF and supported much more transparency in the markets..

than this administration was willing to tolerate.

Regulation will do nothing as long as regulatory capture persists. It's pointless and toothless and won't stop the next crisis, which is already fast approaching.

Bloomberg is also to the left of Obama on many social issues, gun control, supports gay marriage 100%, etc. I don't really think there would be much of a difference between the two on economic policy, it's just a matter of approach. One supports failed bureaucratic solutions and the other supports failed free market solutions, pick your poison. They both would have equally shitty foreign policy.

He says he's not going to run though so whatever.

[Jackpine Radical]

13. No.

Obama is looking stronger all the time. I think the Rs are figuring the second dip of the recession will take Obama out. I do think there will be not just a "double dip" but a generally worsening scene in the structural problems of the economy in the next decade, but I think Obama has made himself rather recession-proof. Or, maybe more accurately, the Republicans have made him recession-proof. In hard times, nobody is going to want to vote for someone who promises to end Medicare and keeps licking their chops while eyeing Social Security.

[FourScore]

14. no

[Tikki]

15. NO....

Tikki

[Uben]

16. He already is, it seems

His main challenger, by some of the posts I read here, is the "other" Obama. Personally, I don't think there is a man or woman out there that can defeat him, he can only defeat himself. Fortunately, he is a very intelligent man, and I don't see that happening.

It has been remarkably enjoyful watching the republicans squirm these past couple of years. They have been reduced to taking the low road because Obama has claimed the high road.

[tammywammy]

17. No n/t

[JDPriestly]

18. I wish that he would.

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[JTFrog]

23. Your "we" certainly doesn't speak for me.

:eyes:

[Bobbie Jo]

24. Horseshit.

Not even close. Vote for who you want already.

Good Lord. I've talked "beaten spouses" who lament their lot in life less than this.

[DCBob]

26. Beaten.. please. you sound like a spoiled kid crying for more and more toys.

Get real. Politics is messy and ugly and the opposition is strong and wants to destroy us.

[JTFrog]

22. Negative.

I haven't seen anyone willing to get spanked publicly in 2012. They will wait until 2016.
And rightly so.

[MrScorpio]

27. No

[DCBob]

28. The Green Party will probably put somebody out there.

I doubt they will have much impact.

[NYC Liberal]

29. No. n/t

[City Lights]

30. Do you?

[blondeatlast]

35. +1, but I doubt we get an answer. nt

[OmahaBlueDog]

31. We learned that lesson in 1980, so no

The Republicans learned that lesson in '92, so again, no.

[customerserviceguy]

32. If anyone who had the slightest chance of doing so

did anything to advance his/her candidacy, all of us here would have heard of it by now. It just isn't going to happen.

[Renew Deal]

33. Not from anyone more credible than the Rent is 2 Damn High guy

Even getting the Rent is 2 damn high guy would be an accomplishment. BTW, he is running as a republican.

[Kaleva]

34. No.

[Pirate Smile]

36. Nope.