Change riptide reverses to slam Obama
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WASHINGTON — The torrent of change unleashed by Barack Obama in 2008 violently reversed and all but swept his Democrats away on Tuesday, as a Republican riptide threatened to swamp his presidency.
But given the violent twists of American politics in the early 21st century, analysts said that Republicans cannot be sure that they will not face the ire of voters next time, leaving Obama’s 2012 reelection hopes intact.
Just two years ago, Obama vowed to change America, and the world.
But voters furious he had failed to lead them out of economic malaise were not prepared to wait, using mid-term elections to hand the House of Representatives to the Republicans he crushed in 2008.
When final votes are tallied, Democrats will likely keep the Senate, but with a withered majority, that with the Republican House will stop Obama’s reform train in its tracks..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101104com3.html
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