These are the approval numbers as of today and to me give some hope the entire country hasn’t gone braindead. How unfortunate it is President Obama couldn’t just trample the constitution like goofy President Pimp and proclaim himself a third term with a rout over the founder of birtherism in America.
Obama is the one who would handle Trump in a debate. He understands the Twitter child who became president by default. Trump wouldn’t have the Lyin’ Ted Cruz or Little Marco Rubio or Low Energy Jeb Bush lines to fall back upon with his base.
Obama 97% – President Pimp 38%
But the question looms will his defacto running mate Vladimir Putin have enough again to carry Trump over the finish line in places like Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren aren’t Barack Obama. They don’t have that ‘It’ factor which can ignite a base and make people stand in line to vote. Hillary Clinton found this out the hard way. The polls lied. She was suppose to ease to victory over the Access Hollywood star of Tic Tac and pussy grabbing fame, but she and Robbie Mook didn’t have a clue.
And these two factors –running mate Putin and the lack of finishing ability by the Dems minus Obama probably make David Duke, Steve Bannon, and Vladimir feel reasonable about their chances fourteen months from now.
Biden and Warren aren’t Obama. Obama won’t be on that debate stage… one of them or Kamala Harris likely will be the candidate.
And in the end this has to give GOP national chairman Vladimir Putin hope he still has a chance for victory up to the last day of the campaign regardless of how goofy and misguided his puppet candidate behaves in the next fourteen months.
As Bill Clinton correctly said in 1992…it will be the economy, stupid– which will decide Putin’s electoral fate a second time around. Will Obama’s economy plus the trillions in liquidity from the individual and corporate tax cuts be enough with Putin to carry his puppet Trump over the finish line in 2020?
So the question looms for Nate Silver, Jon Meacham, myself and political junkies everywhere….will the American electorate give Vladimir Putin a second term?
But for now in the present quasi real world the scoreboard reads:
Obama 97% — Trump 38%.