By Gary Langer Oct 3, 2011 2:30pm
A majority of Americans expect Barack Obama to be a one-term president, an assessment on which, in past elections, the public more often has been right than wrong.
Just 37 percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll say they expect Obama to win re-election in November 2012; 55 percent instead expect the eventual Republican nominee to win. ABC’s George Stephanopoulos is asking the president about that result in an interview today.
It’s a challenging finding for the president because expectations can fuel voter enthusiasm – precisely the ingredient that led the GOP to its broad success in the 2010 midterms, when charged-up conservatives turned out while dispirited Democrats stayed home.
Democrats do expect Obama to win, but they say so only by 58-33 percent – a
comparatively tepid vote of confidence within his own party. Republicans, by
contrast, smell victory by a vast 83-13 percent. And independents – the linchpin
of national politics – by 54-36 percent expect the Republican candidate to beat
Obama.
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