Mad_Machine76
Mad_Machine76's JournalThe odds seem to favor President Obama
As you suggested, he has lot more "paths to victory" + the natural advantages of incumbency + he is more personally likable and "average-seeming" than Romney. Plus, so far all Romney has right now is the "anti-Obama" vote. He will need to attract other people not quite so disposed to hating Obama into his fold. Can he do it? I'm not seeing how, at least at the moment. I personally can't wait for the debates to start between the two of them.
Warming to it?
No chance in hell of THAT. Resigning themselves to it is more likely IMHO. I'm sure that they are starting to worry about the political backlash they are likely to get if their buddies on SCOTUS overturn PPACA. They must have figured out that people are beginning to notice some of the already-instituted benefits they are getting with PPACA and the hell they are going to pay if people wind up losing them as a result of their 2-year jihad against "Obamacare". Maybe now is a good time for President Obama and the Dems to yank the Republicans back to the table to come up with a contingency plan for ensuring that those benefits are able to continue if SCOTUS strikes down PPACA because of the mandate? 
Otherwise, I hope that President Obama and the Dems hammer the Republicans for the remainder of the year over it. It's kind of ironic that the possibility of SCOTUS striking down PPACA- which the Republicans have demanded ever since it was enacted- might wind up being their worst political nightmare.
Who knew?
In order to have enough experience in foreign policy to be POTUS, all one has to do is (according to Republicans like esteemed outgoing Senator Richard Lugar and some foreign policy "expert"
:
1. Be a Missionary (to someplace like....um...France)
2. Work for a global company (i.e. Bain)
3. Help organize the Winter Olympics
Seriously, NPR did a story on this this afternoon, concluding- according to their guests- that Romney will be able to handle foreign policy just fine if elected POTUS.
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