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Tweedledee or Tweedledum -- Who's to Win in 2012?

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With evidence of growing discontent among liberals, does the incumbent President have a lock on re-election? Could a Republican win the day? And would either outcome make much difference for the people?

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With evidence of growing discontent among liberals, does the incumbent President have a lock on re-election?  Could a Republican win the day?   And would either outcome make much difference for the people?
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It is certain that in 2012 the Repukes will go for their usual red-white-and-blue champion of privilege -- their populist propaganda notwithstanding.  But the big problem for the Dims is -- increasingly more every day -- will their war-making, war-failing incumbent, led by his clearly disingenuous elitist financial/corporatist aides, and having announced his goal of a privately financed BILLION DOLLAR 2012 campaign fund, be sufficiently Lesser-Evil to win?  (What kind of investors would cough up a billion bucks not expecting some kind of return?)
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Option 2:  Should the Dims re-group in response to recent polling, growing discontent with the endless war, and outrage with the economy and its direction by Wall Street, and start to groom a More-Lesser-Evil candidate who may have a better chance of edging Michelle, Sarah, Mitt or whomever their cabal of privilege appoints?
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(Obomber or a Repuke?  Hmmm...Could it be that either way the Banksters/Corporatists prevail?)
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Option 3:  Is there the remotest possibility that the Dims, if for no other reason than fear of losing their share of the political payola, could actually go after a capable and decent candidate who would insist upon representing the best interests of all the people?  (Hmmm...let's see...last time...1932?)
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No, realistically none of this is going to happen.  Tweedledee will run against Tweedledum.  And the Tweedle that gets the most votes will run the military wars for the next four years as well as the war against the middle class, perhaps actually killing off the latter while maintaining the former.
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Unless...nah, no unless...the Great American Electorate apparently doesn't see, doesn't care, can't be bothered, or will insist however reluctantly on the More-Lesser-Evil of the Tweedles.
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2016, anyone?  2020?

 

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