The Blue Board

Romney is more than likely to lose Florida because of his stances on immigration reform. He is in fact losing in almost every swing state.

He really has very little to hit Obama with. He's a personally popular president, being dragged down by an economy that's mostly out of his control. 95% of what Romney attacks him with is pure lie - which most people recognize. The people supporting Romney are the ones who were always going to vote against Obama.

Listen Romney is not a dumb guy , he did get elected as governor of Massachusetts as a republican . I think if he picks Rubio , which I think he will , some of the Hispanic vote will flow his way . He can win some of the swing states and get elected. Everyone thought George Bush the elder would get re-elected didn't happen . Obama does stir great amount of discontent with hd statements and has shortfalls like everyone has . So one can't count out Romney .

Add in the wealth factor and you're right. I actually compared him to Kerry talking to a friend the other day. The similarities are eerie (sp?). Just one is a little more conservative than the other. It's going to be a long election season for me.

Also AM I think they will tap Rubio next time around. Although I think a lot would be surprised that Jeb would probably be a stout candidate. Although his name hurts him. If Obama wins again the GOP will win the next election I don't think it's possible for a party to get back-to-back Presidents anymore in our current media environment. After eight years the media is going to have tore your guy down so much that there is just about no way any candidate from you party will win.

Also the debt and such will be so out of control by 2016 that the dems won't stand a chance at the WH IMO.

I like Jeb but his brother image in the media really hurts him. That can be a lot to overcome with the fickle voter in this age. I just want a great leader for our country and we haven't had one on a long time.

Obama wins by 5-6 point and by a huge electoral landslide once more.

Obama is waiting on the batter's deck quietly and knows when to attack and when to stand on the sidelines letting Romney go.

Romney says the most idiotic things at time. He's the polar opposite of Sara palin. One is from an elite family and one is from a tough Alaska family. However, they each have an arrogance/ignorance about them when communicating to many Americans than turn them off and who can't relate to thier baffling stances, ignorant answers, and inability to speak directy about things.

Not if Hillary runs again.

The Democrats just won't be able to win that 2016 election at all IMO. Too many things are very likely to go wrong in Obama's next term.

-Strong chance the Euro will collapse
-Iran will either get the bomb, or there will be a war
-debt will be over $20trillion
-inflation will be even higher aka the Dollar being weaker
-Oil and Gas will continue to rise

I am not saying these things will be Obama's fault, but they are all likely to happen, the only questionable one being the Euro collapse, and because a Democrat is President his party will bear the burden of blame.

BTW if Romney wins these same things are going to happen, and the Dems will likely win in 2016.

Romney calling this Obama's recession by citing stats starting in Jan 2009 (a month we lost 750K jobs), saying Obama made the economy worse, a literal falsity, the 92% job losses under being Woman is both factually wrong and contextually wrong, him claiming we lost around 100K loss of small business starts is the exact same thing...literally his ENTIRE premise his campaign is built on a lie that economy has suffered because of Obama.

Immigration reform is a huge issue in Florida, as is medicare. Both are losing issues for the Republicans right now, because of their wild tilt to the right since Jan 20, 2009.

The Dems don't have anyone to counter the GOP rising stars. Rubio, Daniels, Jindal, Paul Ryan, Christie to name a few. The only one they can counter with is Cuomo, and this country won't elect an elitist liberal from New England. They already rejected Hilary when Obama ran against her as a centrist. 2016 is going to be the year the GOP takes the white house.

agreed

I suppose, but these things are unavoidable for the most part. Politics by nature in this country won't allow either party to fix the debt, inflation will rise because of us having to monetize that debt. There are only two ways the Iran situation can go and they are both bad. World Oil demand will continue to rise thus will oil and gas prices. The Euro is on very shaky ground. It's just the way it is.