However, President Obama is far from a shoo-in in 8 1/2 months. A lot of things can still happen and we could easily be looking at a Republican President taking over in 11 months.
Or President Obama and Speaker Pelosi could be trying to get Majority Leader Reid to relax the filibuster from 60 to 55, which just coincidentally is the number of Democratic Senators in the next Congress. Not that I think either scenario is likely to happen. Alas it looks like we're gonna get at least a couple more years of nonfunctional divided government.
