Do you think Obama will be re-elected?

Do I want him to get re-elected? Yes Why? Well it's really hard to judge anyone given what he inherited after the last president was done. I'd say given the mess he came into he's done a good job. Of course the hard question. I think xfahctor summed it up pretty well above. The only place I might disagree is that he doesn't have the newness of being the first not white president. Which I think is going to cost him a lot of votes in the way of lost enthusiasm and the people who put him in office simply won't show up to vote this time around. That aside, Paul would probably beat him but I don't think he has enough right wing appeal to be the front runner. As for Romney, normally I would say he has no chance, but GW got elected twice.

I'll answer the two easiest questions first. "Do you want him to get re-elected?" No. "Do you think he did a good job?" No. Now, on to the rest. "Why or why not?" Why do I not want him to be re-elected. The in a word is answered in my answer to your third question. He did not in fact do a good job. Not only has he not done a good job, he has not even gone about doing the job by the job description given to him, passed down over a few centuries from our founders. And further, he has acted in more ways than I can count against said job description (said job description being contained in the constitution and the limits it imposes on the president and the federal government). What I expect from a president is nothing short of strict adherence to that document. Obama has managed what I thought was impossible, to commit more constitutional violations than Bush even managed to pull of. He not only continued many of the violations his predecessor committed, he acted in a manner that created many new violations. "Do you think he will be re-elected?" That is the 64 million dollar question. The short answer is, I don't know. There are far too many variables. It will first depend on who the Republican party nominates as their candidate,that will be the wild card. If Ron Paul gets the nomination, Obama is done, finished, might as well start writing the concession speech now. Paul has managed to to pull a lot of Dems in to the republican primaries to support him. In fact, there are also a lot of Dems who voted for him in the DEMOCRATIC primary...that's right, the Dems primary. He managed to come in second place in many states for nomination to the Democrat ticket. This is very telling in itself. He will also get much of the libertarian vote. Now, lets say Romney gets the nomination. Romney won't get the disenfranchised Dem vote and he absolutely won't get the libertarian vote. With Gary Johnson as the Libertarian party nominee this election, it could wind up being a very close 3 way race. I would hope in this case to see Johnson get it, because in this match up he would be the only candidate who was actually significantly different. Romney and Obama are basically the same candidate. I have often said one might just as well pick the other as their running mate and be done with it....Obomney 2012!