Reelection

8:03 AM, May 7, 2012 • By GEOFFREY NORMAN

The this past weekend's New York Times:

... President Barack Obama today kicked off his re-election campaign ...

How could they tell?

10:20 AM, May 4, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

On Sunday evenings, President Obama meets with his top ten campaign officials to "gather for a confidential briefing on his re-election," according to the New York Times. Present at these meetings, which, we learn, usually take place after the president's Sunday golf outings, are a slew of White House and campaign officials.

6:00 AM, Apr 19, 2012 • By JAY COST

Sean Trende has an important column that connects presidential job approval to reelection results. You really should read the whole thing, but here is the big take home point:

6:00 AM, Jan 26, 2012 • By JAY COST

In his last work, The Responsible Electorate (1966), the great scholar V.O. Key argued against the thinking of political scientists of his age that the mass public was too ill-informed to make wise decisions:

A Parody.

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6:00 AM, Jun 15, 2011 • By JAY COST

And so the great machinery of the Obama-Biden campaign has slowly begun now to turn. Consider the following:

A. The president is in Puerto Rico on a visit so obviously political that Bloomberg can't keep it out of the lede:

President Barack Obama made the first official presidential stop in Puerto Rico in a half-century today with a message aimed more at an audience on the U.S. mainland.

9:23 AM, Apr 21, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

Sean Trende, writing at Real Clear Politics, argues that "the results" of the 2012 presidential election "are far from foreordained." And though Trende is not predicting President Obama will necessarily lose his reelection bid, he puts the odds at "

5:27 PM, Apr 5, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARREN

Yesterday, President Barack Obama announced his plans to run for reelection in 2012, 582 days before Election Day and before most major Republican opponents officially announced that they'd be entering the race. This is the earliest any incumbent president has officially signed up to run again.

8:14 AM, Apr 5, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

Steve Hayes, with Mara Liasson and Charles Krauthammer, last night on Fox News: