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[quote=jsteele]I won't be voting for Obama. But, his strategy looks to be pretty good. Here is how I see it:

1) Initially, move to the middle to reassure independents and maintain support from his financiers. Because Republicans were afraid to give him victories, the further to the middle he moved, the further to the right they moved. At the same time, he used Republican opposition as an excuse to the Democratic left for not pursing their agenda.

2) With the Republicans hemmed in on the far right, and the possibility of passing progressive legislation at nil, Obama has adopted a populist stance represented by his jobs plan. While his plan has no hope of being passed (something that was never his intention in the first place), it serves the purpose of illustrating how far to the right the Republicans have moved and rallies his base.

Over the next few months, Obama will do nothing but talk about jobs. Republicans will talk about tax breaks, oppose taxing millionaires, criticize the EPA, and complain about gays. I those circumstances, I don't see how Obama loses.
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