Obama announces 2012 re-election bid
April 5th, 2011 - 2:53 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Apr. 5 (ANI): US President Barack Obama has announced that he make a bid for the White House again in 2012.
In an e-mail to his fan base on Monday, Obama admitted that change has not come “quickly or easily” to America during his first term, and he hoped to better his record in the White House, if re-elected next year.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Obama is battling criticism of his health care bill, two years of staggeringly high unemployment; frustration among liberals who lost hope after insufficient change; alienated independent voters; devastating midterm losses that cost him control of the House, a filibuster-proof Senate and 11 governorships; and now a third war in the Muslim world.
Obama is an unpopular president. His Gallup Poll approval rating last week stood at 46 percent.
“Obama is certainly beatable. It’s just that the eventual GOP presidential nominee has to move with James Bond-like precision in the battleground states of Florida, Ohio, Virginia and Nevada,” said Ford O’Connell, chairman of the Conservative Civic Forum PAC, whose chief goal is to remove the current occupant of the White House.
James Thurber, director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University and author of “Obama in Office”, said he sees former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney as the nomination front-runner, but said his challenge will be to navigate the Tea Party-dominated Iowa caucus while maintaining viability among independent voters in a general election.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has some of the Southern charm of former President Bill Clinton, Thurber said.
Obama has a huge advantage among Latinos, whose voting power threatens the GOP’s Southern bastion. (ANI)
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