tucson: After the Tucson shooting, Obama's chances of being re-elected to a 2nd term just increased ten fold. Especially since the leftwing media who is in the tank for Obama will likely paint the Republican Party in the 2012 presidential elections as the party of violent crazy gunman. Even if the unemployment rate is still high in November of 2012, the leftwing media still has the Tucson shooting as a weapon against the Republicans.|||Americans have notoriously short memories when it comes to presidents which is why both Clinton and Obama seemingly successfully "moved to the center" and were perceived as far less liberal than their policies would indicate. In Clinton's case, he adopted welfare reform - after strenuously opposing it - which solidified his image as a "moderate." Obama has the Tucson speech and a slew of initiatives, including regulatory reform, that he is trying to show his move to the center. Will it last? Abraham Lincoln's admonishment about "fooling all the people all the time" is instructive here. Sooner or later, people will wake up to the fact that the economy is not really getting much better, and that the reason can be laid at Obama's feet. Expect those approval ratings to dip back below 50% once the glow from Obama's Tucson speech wears off. o_O|||I truly hope not. The fervor with which his side has attacked, unjustly, their political opponents may actually open up the eyes of otherwise blind followers. I have never seen such callousness that these folks have shown, unable to wait for stiffening of the dead before they devise a method of capitalizing on the situation.|||nope it will be the Democrats will put all the presure of the economy on Republicans, lets face it unity or not the campaign for 2012 will start real soon.|||They apparently got what they wanted http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/m鈥?/a>|||Sadly, yes. Rahm Emanuel: "Never waste a good crisis."|||It beats a shellacking in the midterms.|||NO!!!!!! I think it's the worst thing that happened to Palin