If unemployment remains excessively high and Palin runs for President in 2012, could she win ?

[steve2470]

"excessively high" = admittedly a subjective phrase. I'm hoping that by November 2012 it won't be.

on edit: Top Federal Reserve officials project that the unemployment rate, now 9.6 percent, will fall only to about 9 percent at the end of 2011 and about 8 percent when the next presidential election arrives, in late 2012. The central bankers had envisioned a more rapid decline in joblessness in their previous forecasts, prepared in June.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/23/AR2010112307234.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2010111806536

See also: Table 1. Economic projections of Federal Reserve Governors and Reserve Bank presidents, November 2010

http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomcminutes20101103ep.htm

[demosincebirth]

1. Looking back at other elections, we elected GWB. How stupid are we?

[pnwmom]

3. We were even stupider when we RE-elected him. nt

[demosincebirth]

6. first time he was appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court..

[AndyTiedye]

10. We Got Robbed, and We Could Get Robbed Again — the Election-Stealing Machines Are Still In Place

[pnwmom]

12. I know. And that's why she's a real threat. n/t

[mod mom]

16. Exactly. Her biggest obstacle is that she is not backed by BFEE

and seems to want to control the strings herself.


-snip

Sarah Palin on Laura Ingraham's radio show Wednesday morning drew a bit of pre-Thanksgiving buzz for a swipe she took at Barbara Bush for suggesting that the 2008 vice president nominee would be best served in 2012 by staying in Alaska.

"I don't think the majority of Americans want to put up with the blue-bloods -- and I want to say it will all due respect because I love the Bushes -- the blue bloods who want to pick and choose their winners instead of allowing competition," said the former Alaska Governor.

-snip

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/24/palin-slams-michelle-obam_n_788200.html

[LiberalEsto]

2. Does anyone believe think SHE can create jobs?

The only way she could win is for her corporate money backers to throw enormous amounts of money into a campaign and virtually BUY the election.

[Skittles]

4. if bush could be "president", ANYONE CAN

[Imagevision]

13. if Bush could be "president", ANYONE CAN - WRONG! Bush stole both elections, Palin

will never get the Bilderburg group to steal anything for that lame-brain!

[Skittles]

20. bush very much lowered the bar

if people can vote for a clueless sociopath, they can vote for another one

[Bragi]

5. I think she can win either way

She's an uninformed, ideological moron, so that gives her maybe 40 per cent of the vote from the start. Obama only needs to hand her another 5-10 per cent, and she's in.

[onehandle]

7. Unemployment is projected by the Fed to be 8% or more by Fall 2012.

Still very high.

[Bonhomme Richard]

8. If she won I would be gone. That's a fact. The only problem..

if finding a country to live in that wouldn't be subject to a potential attack.

[AndyTiedye]

11. Uh, Switzerland?

Palin's backers wouldn't want anything to happen to their Swiss bank accounts, would they? :evilgrin:

[Bonhomme Richard]

18. That would make me nuts. The Swiss have no sense of humor. n/t

[Bonhomme Richard]

9. If she won I would be gone. That's a fact. The only problem..

if finding a country to live in that wouldn't be subject to a potential attack.

[TBF]

14. Unfortunately yes - but I can't see the repugs running her. nt

[zbdent]

15. if it remains high, the Republicans will, with the aid of the "liberally biased media", claim

it's because President Obama hasn't co-operated with them ...

if the unemployment is significantly lower, and the economy has significantly improved, the "liberally biased media" will be saying "Look at what the Republicans did to bring this country out of the great recession ..."

Why is it nobody points out how the Dow and NASDAQ have made huge gains since Obama was elected (and especially after he was sworn in)? For the Republicans to "take credit" for improving the economy, the Dow and NASDAQ would have to really do significantly better than they have under Obama already ...

[mix]

17. Palin is done. The old guard republican leaders will not accept her, ever, as the party's candidate.

[applegrove]

19. No. If Palin wins the nomination then I'm sure Bloomburg will run. All those independants

are just begging for a third candidate. That is probably why Obama seems to be trying to be in the centre.