Costly gasoline clouds Obama re-election prospects (AP) – 17 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) — With gas prices climbing and little relief in sight, President Barack Obama is scrambling to get ahead of the latest potential obstacle to his re-election bid, even as Republicans are making plans to exploit the issue. No one seems more aware of the electoral peril than Obama himself. "My poll numbers go up and down depending on the latest crisis, and right now gas prices are weighing heavily on people," he told Democratic donors in Los Angeles this past week. In fact, Obama raised the issue unsolicited in a series of town meetings in Virginia, California and Nevada that were ostensibly about his deficit-reduction plan. And he made the gas spike the subject of his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday. "It's just another burden when things were already pretty tough," he said. As Obama well knows, Americans love their cars and remain heavily dependent on them, and they don't hesitate to punish politicians when the cost of filling their tanks goes through the roof. Indeed, for presidents, responding to sudden surges is a recurring frustration.
I hope it does end his Presidency I would pay 6+ just for him to be blamed for it and see him have a Jimmy Carter like One Term Presidency...My car does not run on Sun light nor wind.....or anything else in this FAIRY TAIL land we call Renewable Energy......DRILL DRILL DRILL off California,Florida in Alaska on the G.D. White House LAWN if it`s what it takes......the people wanted CHANGE in Policy MR.President not CHANGE in there pocket after they fill up there gas tanks BECAUSE of ur policies MR.President
