http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501363_162-57428686/whos-who-obama-romney-projecting-mirror-image/Cut to Novemeber: As usual, it's a fight for the middle. Hardcore's on the left and right never budge and nobody is listening to them anymore because they sound like idiotic broken records (HINT).
I'm thinking more than ever, even more than four years ago, the college student vote is going to make or break a lot more states like it did in NC last election. I think the young twenty-somethings aren't having any of what the parties are trotting out, not in a wholesale fashion anyhow. They'll look up their own facts. Unfortunately, for the repubs, they're better connected to facts on the environment and more in touch with the idea of a world community than any generation before them, thanks to the intertubes. The kids, they're more informed than we were, at the same age, I hate to say it.
My prediction is another four for Obama because the timing is right for him. He'll win because people love him and want him to do well. And I qualify 'people' as people who love beleaguered underdogs. People want to see him pull off what he's aiming to do. My opinion takes into account the folks who think he's just the worst thing ever and will ruin this country for the next 50 years -- we all know you hate him and disagree with everything he's about. There's just not enough of you to make a big enough dent this time around - my opinion.
Romney is hard up against it that way. Nobody (as we saw in the republican race) in his own party even likes him let alone is he trusted by younger voters. He's Bush lite.
I just don't think there's enough of the type of fear and hate, intense as it is, to really push Obama off his trajectory. Plus those that are really bent out of shape about having a more socially sensitive black president will be dead soon, or at least aren't having offspring anymore. Their mindset is waning and will ultimately fizzle away like all malformed ideologies do.
And I'll go ahead and qualify "malformed ideologies" as the way of thinking that doesn't take the entire planet into consideration when forming economic, social, and political policies that govern ALL the people you've been voted in to govern. ALL the people includes the rich as well as the poor