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Originally Posted by kane
I can't see it happening.
Assuming Obama win reelection one of two things will happen. Either things will continue to improve and Obama will be popular or they will get worse and he will have a terrible approval rating. Even if he is popular and Hillary decides to run it doesn't mean she is a shoe in. Look at Gore. Clinton was very popular when he left office. The economy was good, the world was at relative peace and things look great and yet Gore still lost. A lot of that can be blamed on Gore himself, but it goes to show that often after 8 years of one party people want a change.
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Thre's some truth to that. Also with Gore remember Clinton's first few years the economy was hot, it was fast and loose money whiten Clinton came in and his first few years. His LAST couple years, election time, the economy had started to drop significantly. Today we remember the good years early in the Clinton presidency, but at election time things weren't so great and the argument was made that the dems ruined a great economy.
Given the doubling of the debt and the gutting of medicare to pay for Obamacare, I don't see how his second term, if he has one, can possibly be anything but horrible. We've overspent by $20,000 per taxpayer and we WILL have to pay the piper. Trillions in debt simply don't just disappear. To me, it's like a guy making $80,000 / year salary who has just put $40,000 on credit cards saying "if next year is good I can have a nice vacation." It ain't happening. We've already spent the next ten tears worth of lucky breaks. If we're lucky, we'll be able to survive the debt and not go completely bankrupt ala Greece.