WHO IS AFRAID OF BARACK OBAMA IN 2012?

Why is the GOP and all her presidential aspirants for the office of the president of the United States all afraid of Barack Obama? Why is Obama under serious attacks from the Republicans and the right-wing media and commentators? What makes Barack Obama to be a giant political force to be reckoned with in the American presidential politics of today?

(i) His ability to raise more money through his small donors than the Republican candidates.(ii) His publicly acclaimed oratorical ability and communication skills. (iii) The faithfulness of his major voting blocks (African-Americans, Hispanics, middle-class and urban whites and the new immigrants). (iv) Republican Party is too polarised and divided between the conservatives and the radical Tea Party elements.

 (v) He has no single opposition in the Democratic Party against him in 2012. (vi) The two leading Republican candidates at the moment are supported by two different groups within the same party that are lightyears apart in their political ideologies. (vii) The present tax issue (Buffet Rule) in America between the rich and the middle class and the poor. 82% of American voters support tax increase on the rich which is Obama's position and political message in 2012 presidential election.

(viii) The poor job performance of the Republican-led House of Representatives. 82% of American voters did not approve their job performance and many of them will face a tough battle next year in their midterm elections. (ix) Obama still has more than two more years in Oval Office to turn the ailing economy around through his present American Job Bill to be paid for by taxing the rich Americans and the corporations. If this bill is opposed by the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, then it will be a political referendum on the Republican led House and a political message in 2012 midterm and presidential elections.

 (x) The swing block in all presidential elections, the independents support taxing the rich and the corporations more which is the same political position that Obama holds now and it will be his major political campaign message or agenda for 2012. (xi) There are too many ways to reach the electoral magic number of 270 without following the traditional red states/blue states patterns. (xii) The demographics of the electorates are changing in every presidential circle. (xiii) 13 million Hispanic-Americans are now eligible to vote in the 2012 presidential elections.