If unemployment stays at 9% or so, will being seen as Centrist help Obama?

[CreekDog]

i mean help him win the votes of notoriously fickle "Centrist" voters?

and the reason i ask this is because budget cutting reduces the demand side of the economy, and we are in either a recession or a woefully slow-growing economy. and the President seems to have decided this is the best approach for the moment.

the President's political team seems to think it's a good idea. is it so good that it will convince voters even if the economy continues to perform at the current level?

and besides, what's the alternative? Obama goes out on a limb for spending to grow the economy, takes all kinds of heat for the deficit, but, say, in two years, the unemployment rate is back to 7% and several percent of those still looking have benefits flowing so they are spending and, well, hell, they are still at least not homeless, w/o health care, food, etc.

but the latter apparently would make Obama look too leftist, so he'd rather the 9% unemployment while looking Centrist going into 2012 than the leftist lower unemployment, higher deficit solution.

i want to judge this rationally for what it appears to be, but it's too heartbreaking to say what's staring me in the face.

it was a different sort of failure in Canada, but it was failure nonetheless, that has propelled the NDP into parity with the Liberal Party.

but Obama's got this. i don't know how he's got it, or what he's got --but he must got this. i don't know what's in it for me, but, if the goal is to look Centrist and reasonable, i'm supposed to get mad because it helps him look Centrist.

okay, i can do my part. :grr:

[JVS]

1. It's going to go up and he's toast.

The only silver lining is that this debt ceiling thing may have made the teabaggers unpopular enough that the more moderate wing of the Republican party will do better. So we'll have Romney instead of Bachmann calling the shots in the future.

[TheWraith]

2. Seriously, you need to get out of the echo chamber now and then.

Obama is going to win reelection in a walk.

[JVS]

3. You might want to take your own advice. Bad economies don't help with reelections.