[Alberta's Child]

Good point. Some years ago I read a great article about the 1980 election from an insider in the Carter campaign. Carter was told by his advisors as early as the summer of 1980 that he was going to lose the election badly, but he basically had to go through the motions and mount a competitive campaign because they were afraid that a total capitulation would bring devastating losses in Congress and in other races at the state and local level.

I don't think this is quite the same kind of landslide in the making, but I've always sensed that Obama has been in so far over his head for years -- and he knows it.

[napscoordinator]

and he knows it.

He certainly does. Obama would not have purchased a home in Hawaii if he thought he was going to win. Why not wait until after the election to purchase a home if he thought he was going to win? I know he has to purchase a home either for January 2013 or January 2017 regardless, but to do so before the election 2012 proves he knows he is going to lose.