Even if Obama was to win, I believe the mind-set of the country will be Conservative enough that he will have to deal with a Republican Senate and House and he will be hamstrung. He will have an impotent second term.
Exactly right.
People don't like to hear this, but strategy-wise, it's better to have a hog-tied Obama in office, rather than a liberal stealth Democrat like Romney, who a Republican Congress will roll over for.
It's Art of War 101, but most people are simply too frightened of Zero to understand it. They're going to vote in the one guy who really can cement Zero's leftist agenda in place. Zero himself has no chance of doing that, because the opposition on the right will be too overwhelming to overcome. In fact, Zero would be lucky to survive a second term at all.