Neotrotsky
Council to Supreme Soviet
Democratic Pollsters: Obama Should Abandon Run for Second Term
Patrick H. Caddell and Douglas E. Schoen argued that just as Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson decided not to pursue additional runs though they could have, Obama should do the same.
Caddell, who worked as a pollster for President Jimmy Carter, and Schoen, who was a pollster for President Bill Clinton, argue that Obama will inevitably have to run a negative campaign in order to win reelection, the negative consequences of which will make it difficult for him to govern effectively.
One year ago in these pages, we warned that if President Obama continued down his overly partisan road, the nation would be guaranteed two years of political gridlock at a time when we can ill afford it. The result has been exactly as we predicted: stalemate in Washington, fights over the debt ceiling, an inability to tackle the debt and deficit, and paralysis exacerbating market turmoil and economic decline, they write.
Caddell, who worked as a pollster for President Jimmy Carter, and Schoen, who was a pollster for President Bill Clinton, argue that Obama will inevitably have to run a negative campaign in order to win reelection, the negative consequences of which will make it difficult for him to govern effectively.
One year ago in these pages, we warned that if President Obama continued down his overly partisan road, the nation would be guaranteed two years of political gridlock at a time when we can ill afford it. The result has been exactly as we predicted: stalemate in Washington, fights over the debt ceiling, an inability to tackle the debt and deficit, and paralysis exacerbating market turmoil and economic decline, they write.
