The other side of the coin is that President Obama could pick up some voters who voted for John McCain because they were scared of a black man doing things that he now shows no signs of doing. Such voters went for Carter in 1976 and Clinton in the 1990s. That could not be enough to win any states other than Arizona and Missouri. Such is itself a stretch.
LOOOOL! Did you really write that??
No one who didn't vote for Barack Obama in 2008 is more likely to vote for him in 2012!
No kidding that's one hell of a stretch!
How about supporters of a health insurance mandate? There are lots of other areas where Republican orthodoxy of 2008 is now Republican anathema -- and Democratic policy.
