Obama’s Signals

2010-12-07 - byGary Pearce
President Obama sent two signals about 2012 on today’s front page.
 
First, he’s going to contest North Carolina.
 
Second, he’s going to run the same way he ran the first time, even if it drives die-hard Democrats crazy: as an adult trying to rise above a Washington filled with immature partisans.
 
Despite what happened here this year, he’d be smart to try to win North Carolina’s electoral votes again in 2012. There are over a million Democrats who voted for him in 2008 but didn’t vote in 2010.
 
The icing on the cake: If he wins North Carolina, he wins reelection. Electoral math says no Republican can be elected President without carrying this state. In fact, Obama gains by simply making a Republican fight for North Carolina.
 
As for his positioning, both his visit to Winston-Salem and his deal with Republicans on the tax cut show that he’s going back to what worked for him before: trying to unite Blue America and Red America.
 
That’s not what his party jihadists want. But it may be what the voters want in two years.
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Obama’s Signals

2010-12-07/Gary Pearce
President Obama sent two signals about 2012 on today’s front page.
 
First, he’s going to contest North Carolina.
 
Second, he’s going to run the same way he ran the first time, even if it drives die-hard Democrats crazy: as an adult trying to rise above a Washington filled with immature partisans.
 
Despite what happened here this year, he’d be smart to try to win North Carolina’s electoral votes again in 2012. There are over a million Democrats who voted for him in 2008 but didn’t vote in 2010.
 
The icing on the cake: If he wins North Carolina, he wins reelection. Electoral math says no Republican can be elected President without carrying this state. In fact, Obama gains by simply making a Republican fight for North Carolina.
 
As for his positioning, both his visit to Winston-Salem and his deal with Republicans on the tax cut show that he’s going back to what worked for him before: trying to unite Blue America and Red America.
 
That’s not what his party jihadists want. But it may be what the voters want in two years.
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