Democrats In For The Long Haul
President Obama could simply kick back and not even campaign at all and still win the race by a landslide.
The President's popularity will have no bearing on his winning the next election either because he could have a performance rating in the thirty percent range and his Republican opponent will still loose because he or she will not have the backing of enough voters confident enough in his or her ability to put them close to a win.
The Republican Party has two options for a successful win in 2012. The first would be to get the law changed so that Arnold Schwarzenegger could run for office. In my opinion he has been doing as good as anyone could under the circumstances of the financial crisis and in the face of how politics are run in the state of California. Thus, he would be a strong candidate who could get the votes to beat Obama.
The second option would be to get Rush Limbaugh to run. This man claims to be the voice of the Conservative Movement and with good reason. He has not compromised his ethics, views, and convictions to try to please more people by becoming more moderate. He has remained the sort of rock that is the immovable object in a climate of sand pebbles being blown in all directions by a strong political wind of indecision. Rush would stand the best chance of any one in any party of winning the Presidency in 2012.
Barack Obama would realize he was in for the fight of his political life and could very well lose the election with a man who has millions of followers across the nation as Rush does.
I however believe that neither of these men will run in 2012 simply because one cannot and the other is enjoying life and spending time getting fat too much to put forth the effort to run for anything but a burger at the nearest Jack In The Box.
For these reasons, Barack Obama will have clear sailing beyond the next election and the Democrat Party will be in power far beyond the next Presidential Election.