Bill Clinton predicts strong Obama victory

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[InvisibleChurch]

Former US president Bill Clinton said he thought that fellow Democrat Barack Obama would be easily re-elected to the White House, even though polls currently show a close race.

"I still think the president will win by five or six points," Clinton told CNN, in an interview with movie producer Harvey Weinstein.

Obama faces presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney in the November 6 election.

Romney has surged ahead of Obama in the southern battleground state of Florida, holding a 47-41 percent lead, according to a recent Quinnipiac University Polling Institute...

[tacticalogic]

From the man even his fellow Democrats described as “an exceptionally good liar”.

[bkepley]

I’m beginning to think the weak economy is helping Obama, only in the fact that it’s causing more folks to be on the dole, and of course people will vote for whoever will provide free money as opposed to allow the economy to function.

But the thing is unemployment checks are ending or have ended for millions. I suspect a large reason for Romney's poll number improvement is due to this. He started going up at just about exactly the same time that the extension ended.

[EyeGuy]

“This guy can’t win. Not only can’t he win, but he, and Reid and Pelosi have done such a piss poor job that I’d say its well better than even money that the Senate will have 60 or more republicans in it next term and major house pick ups as well.”

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Republicans in charge of the Presidency, Senate and House?

Wow, I’m excited.....no, really....I promise....

[HamiltonJay]

Oh I’m not holding my breath that they will use the lead they will be given as they should.. to undo 60 years of social destruction, but one can hope.

[kabar]

Clinton has an abysmal record of prediction. Usually his support is the kiss of death. He is in WI campaigning against Walker.

[Verginius Rufus]

Yes, that's what I'm thinking--Clinton thinks Hillary's chances are better in 2016 if there is a Republican incumbent. It's hard for the same party to win 3 times in a row--GHWB did so largely because of Reagan's continuing popularity, but that won't be the case in 2016 if Obama is still in office.

But the Edwards verdict yesterday is bad news for Hillary--now she has to worry about him running in 2016. For Democrats, he may be more attractive because he is even sleazier than Hillary.

[EyeGuy]

Indeed, it isn’t just the utter fiscal insanity, but perhaps more fundamentally to what ails us, the ongoing social and moral destruction.

You made the case well. I hope you are correct, come November.

[Vendome]

Bill’s got what? A 96% failure rate of candidates he’s endorsed so this could be a good thing.

[Darth Reardon]

I guess I don’t see how winning by five or six electoral votes is “easily”. That’s pretty darn close.

[Vendome]

Bill’s got what? A 96% failure rate of candidates he’s endorsed so this could be a good thing.

[Henchster]

"Warlords!"

Phil Hartman doing the best Clinton skit. "You're going to find out there's a LOT of things we don't tell Mrs. Clinton."

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Forty five years ago it was predicted that the hippies of that day would be running the US today.

Unfortunately it has come true.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I’m so glad I don’t have to see that sign anymore at the state line when I come back from a beer run to Oklahoma!

[lauraw]

Yes, Clinton knows Obama will lose, and yes, he is delighted; the operative word in that statement was “still”—the acknowledgment that it is no longer the consensus of even members of his own party that Obama’s win is likely. He gets to look loyal even as he signals (for his own purposes) that Obama is going down. And (bonus) Clinton gets to think he is sooper-dooper clever about the whole dodge, because most people will get the message but not know how they got the message.