Someone said Rove's REAL target is the Senate - Romney is a diversion....

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61. that has ALWAYS been the republican target. they always knew obama would be very difficult to beat.

frankly the economy isn't bad enough to be a real problem for obama.

republicans are trying like hell to get mileage out of the fact that we haven't recovered to pre-shrub debacle levels, but the reality is that we are NOT in a recession and the stock markets have essentially completely recovered. unemployment remains higher than we'd all like, but it's not ridiculously high and it's moving in the right direction.

this is NOT the kind of economic backdrop that generally unseats incumbents.

moreover, obama is, if nothing else, a formidable campaigner and he has some brilliant strategists on his team.


but in order to win congressional elections, you need the top of the ticket to be at least viable. people don't turn out if they're turned off by the presidential race. so they they need to run someone, even if they know he's lose, and to keep him seeming viable so people will turn out to vote for him, and while they're there, vote for the senate races (and house races as well, though that's less of an issue).

they don't need rmoney to win, they only need him to remain in the hunt, then spend big time on a few key senate races.



not that it matters all that much. we'll have legislative gridlock unless democrats control both houses AND restrict filibusters. short of that, republicans will continue to obstruct to whatever extent they can.