# What are the chances that Obama cruises into his second term? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 14, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-chances-that-obama-cruises-into-his-second-term/612859 "2012-02-14T23:10:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 72
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-chances-that-obama-cruises-into-his-second-term/612859/72 "2012-02-19T02:53:41Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > He had a pretty long run of fucking horrible news ? Unemployment went down, in the latest monthly report, for the fifth month in a row. If the election was now, Obama would surely win because of the economic news being so good. Perhaps you are thinking that the depression is bad news for the president. I don’t think so. He will no more be punished for it than FDR was, who handily won re-election in a far worse depression because the economy was, as today, going in the right direction. The real question is whether the run of good news continues. > [@Santorum or Gingrich-Who Is Worse?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/santorum-or-gingrich-who-is-worse/612164/40): > > I’d be over the Canadian border before you could say “We Stand On Guard For Thee”. You do know they have a Tory government up there, and immigration quotas are down except for temporary workers, right? So, unless independently wealthy, you probably would be a second class citizen in a Tory-run state. Mexico’s next government is excepted to be center-left. You might want to look into their immigration laws. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-chances-that-obama-cruises-into-his-second-term/612859)._