Will the Libya Crisis Help Obama or Romney?

[BlueSwan]

I think that this, despite Romneys early fumble, if prolonged in any way, hurts Obama and helps Romney.

Now hear me out!

We've had loads of experience with stuff like this - not completely similarly, but similarly enough - in Europe. In Denmark we had the infamous Mohammed drawings, for instance, which was met with an outroar in certain parts of the arab world.

In Europe, what we have learned is basically that any type of event that can give rise to anti-islamic sentiment of any sort will always help the right wing. Always. It doesn't matter if the right wing are acting batsh**t crazy or making completely unreasonable arguments and generalizations.

If the Republicans can make the case that Obama is "weak on muslims" (or even a muslim himself, which loads of americans apparently believe), then I'm afraid this is a winning cause for them.

However, if it ends now, it probably helps Obama due to a rallying around the flag and Romneys fumble. But it does need to end now. Which I don't think it will. These protests tend to take a while to die down.