Barack Obama's Second Term Polls For the 2012 Election

Barack Obama will be a shoe-in Democratic candidate for the 2012 election. The only uncertainty right now is which Republican opponent will Barack Obama will be facing off against in 2012.

The Republicans have several things to consider when they select a candidate in the upcoming presidential election. The first and foremost of which is what the direction of the party will be. Ideally, they would want to be the party of national security, low taxes, reduced government spending, and family values. But the candidates come from a wide array of backgrounds.

The major issues that Republicans will need to keep in mind in the upcoming election is this:

• Mike Huckabee was known to increase taxes as Governor.
• Mitt Romney was once pro-choice.
• Sarah Palin may be a classic Conservative but is she too partisan?
• Bobby Jindal is a fresh young face to the Republican party but how much do we really know him?

These issues will eventually sort themselves out as the Republican primary progresses. But just as the race in 2008 had several front runners at several different times, the 2012 election appears as if it will be no different.

The Democratic party is in a really strong position. The economy is poor but they will be blaming the Republicans for that. And unless the Republican party is able to put together a message that is not only different from the Bush years but a drastic contrast with Obama's economic policies, they would stand no chance.

Currently, Obama polls in the mid-60s approval rating. And when paired up with any of the prospective 2012 presidential hopefuls, Obama leads by about 15%.

USAElectionPolls.com publishes the latest in 2012 election polls on an ongoing basis. Their sister site president polls 2012 has descriptions of some of the many presidential hopefuls.

How Chicagoland Helped Barack Obama's Political Dream

Barack Obama is a native of Honolulu, not Chicago. Nonetheless Chicago is where he sought to become a politician. And this is a most remarkable decision because, of all the towns in America, Chicago is notorious for its dirty and corrupt politics and its closely-held system of political patronage. Just Obama's choice to move to Chicago after he graduated from Harvard Law School was rather cheeky. For forty years out of the previous fifty-three, Chicago had been ruled absolutely by the Daley family. It was first ruled by Richard Daley notable for having thrown the 1960 election, which was actually won by Richard Nixon, to John F. Kennedy and later by his son. A previous challenger of Daley rule, congressman Abner Mikva, was also a non-Chicagoan by birth and this proved to be a serious handicap in his fight against the Daley machine. Mikva was an early Obama supporter and had offered him a job in his Washington office as law clerk but Obama refused, saying that he'd prefer to run for election on his own account.

Chicagoland assisted living Obama's political ambitions when the Daley machine's grip on the city was first broken by Jayne Byrne, the first woman mayor in Chicago's history. She came into power in 1979, three years after Richard Daley Sr. died, on a campaign capitalizing upon the utter incompetence of Daley's successor. However, she soon proved to be just as incompetent; moreover her racism created a severe backlash against her amongst black and liberal voters which resulted in the election of Harold Washington, Chicago's first black mayor, in 1983. It was while Washington was mayor that Barack Obama moved to Chicago after graduating from Columbia University and became a community organizer.

Initially, Obama's work involved trying to make a partnership of Chicago south west suburbs physicians and church leaders into a viable political force. However the going was slow and hard since he was still something of a starry-eyed idealist. Here and there were minor victories, such as setting up a job training sites or after school programs for youth. After entering Harvard Law School in 1988, Obama returned to Chicago during summer vacations as an intern at prestigious law firms at one of which he met his future wife. When he graduated in 1991 he returned to Chicago permanently. He soon built himself a network of political friends, largely through his work in a voter registration drive during the 1992 presidential campaign. This drive which introduced him to many of Chicago's black leaders as well as leaders of the white liberal community, all of whom were extremely impressed with Obama's dynamism and charisma. During the early 90's Obama worked as a civil rights lawyer and lectured at the University of Chicago's law school. He also joined the boards of two liberal foundations which granted money to worthy Chicago causes. Soon he began to be known as a force to be reckoned with in local politics and in 1995 he ran for the state senate and won, carefully playing all connections which he had built up. A recent article in the New Yorker which interviewed many Obama acquaintances from this period of his life, reported numerous variations of the same remark made by many of the people who knew him then: "This guy will be the first black American president."

Chicagoland assisted living Barack Obama's political dreams when a coalition of Chicago south west suburbs physicians, churchmen, and other political leaders recognized his potential.

Foxophobia, Triskaidekaphobia - Fickle Phantasms From The White House?

President Obamas persistence in singling Fox News out for scoffing and scolding has generated more disbelief than relief for most Americans. It is hard for anyone to imagine a President using the advantage of the office of the President to single out any one individual, corporation, state or even other nations who were not known to be our mortal enemies. It is unprecedented but it is also un-presidential according to anyones assessment of protocol.

The diagnosis modern psychiatry has used to explain phobias in general is that they are repressed anger. Some would say that the President is not fearful of Fox but he is angry with them for doggedly opposing almost all of his policies. To the rest of America the question is silly. We dont care which came first, the chicken or the egg, we do care that the President seems to be whining.

We know the brave young soldiers overwhelmed by insurgents in Afghanistan are very angry with the enemy that wants to kill them. Do they have a phobia that needs diagnosis? You could say they fear that they will be killed while the President dilly dallies with Fox and leaves them in the lurch without reinforcements. Is it unreasonable to think that Obamas anger at Fox is misdirected even as our troops have the anger of a vicious enemy directed squarely at them?

At the moment freedom of speech is still constitutional and the President will have to suffer the consequences of that. Fox still has a constitutional right to investigate and report what they find to the public. He doesnt have to like it but we can give him the same advice the networks give us when we complain about the trash they offer for programming and the mire and muck we are afraid our kids might see: shut it off!

Most Americans cringe when their freedom of speech is questioned, curtailed or outright denied because it is the only way to get to the truth of a matter. If we are all required to speak only the party line then we might want to stop calling it the main stream media or even the old media as some are now saying and rename it Pravda. Didnt that already fail?


It is because of freedom of speech that we now know what Acorn has been doing with taxpayers money. It is the means by which we see that Obamas unconstitutionally appointed czars have ideas and plans for America that read like the dark passages of Sartre. It is the reason we are given a chance to compare the findings of the budget office against the absurd projections of the Obama administration on the cost of health care. It is the reason that news organizations like Fox will always be listened to, loved and depended upon to break out the other side of the story. Fox is clearly the offspring of the constitution not an unwanted stepchild of the present administration and those who love the truth will never see it any other way.

Dare we say grow up Mr. President? Yes we dare and in fact it may be long overdue. We tend not to trust the media that say Palin is a loop de-loop but are delighted with Michelles use of the Hula Hoop. We dont think the regulatory czars idea of abolishing marriage is a reasonable answer to the question of protecting the sanctity of marriage and we dont mind one bit that news outlets like Fox are warning us that your czars have these kinds of ideas. We welcome it.

We werent always labeled as republicans and democrats, liberals and conservatives we were once referred to only as Americans. We suspect that when our constitution was framed that was foremost in the minds of the framers.

We believed this through two centuries of history, two major wars and countless fears and calamities and we still believe it today. We welcome Fox into our homes daily because they remind us of this, we are Americans not socialists, health care reform rebels or Obama policy haters; we are still only Americans. We are no more ashamed of that than we are of Fox news and we are saddened to hear that you are.

We dont want our sons to fall in the streets of some foreign land and we dont want truth to come under siege and fall in the streets at home. "And judgment is turned away backward and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter." (Isaiah 59:14) We want to go to any source we can find for the truth not just those pre-approved by the present administration.

By: Rev. Michael Bresciani