{"id":31102,"date":"2012-11-01T10:29:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T16:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/01\/what-will-a-second-obama-term-look-like.html"},"modified":"2012-11-06T09:47:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T16:47:15","slug":"what-will-a-second-obama-term-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/01\/what-will-a-second-obama-term-look-like.html","title":{"rendered":"What will a second Obama term look like?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Probably not much different than the first. \u00a0The Dems will have a thin (and non-lockstep) majority in the Senate, most likely, and the GOP will continue to hold the House for at least two years (more likely four), and the fact is that Obama is pretty much of a centrist, no matter how much the GOP keep trying to make him out as a crypto-Marxist.<\/p>\n

I expect some movement around the edges on social issues, some "Grand Compromise" deficit reduction plans that will give the GOP 80% of what they want in return for not destroying the economy as much, and some other "historic legacy" gestures that won't likely mean all that much. \u00a0The ACA will go into effect, make some things better, not improve some other things. And the GOP pundits will still make it all out as being The End of Western Civilization As We Know It.<\/p>\n

It's weak tea at best, though\u00a0it's notably better than a Romney Administration would likely be (so VOTE!), but nothing anyone should get excited (or agitated) about.<\/p>\n

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Probably not much different than the first. \u00a0The Dems will have a thin (and non-lockstep) majority in the Senate, most likely, and the GOP will continue to hold the House for at least two years (more likely four), and the fact is that Obama is pretty much of a centrist, no matter how much the … Continue reading “What will a second Obama term look like?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27346,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/10\/santorum-quits-the-race.html","url_meta":{"origin":31102,"position":0},"title":"Santorum quits the race","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Apr-12 3:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"While having Santorum as the GOP candidate would make it more likely, in my opinion, for Obama to win the White House, it would still hold a finite chance of Santorum becoming President ... so this news cheers me immensely. #ddtb Embedded Link Santorum drops out of 2012 race GETTYSBURG,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24243,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/the-joker-is-trump.html","url_meta":{"origin":31102,"position":1},"title":"The Joker is Trump","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 5-Dec-11 10:48am","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Trump is a modern-day P.T. 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