Is America really ready for a third Obama term?
This is what’s being peddled by the punditocracy as it touts Hillary Clinton’s clinch on the Democratic nomination and her ability to beat Republican front-runner Donald Trump.
Whatever differences Clinton may have had with Barack Obama over the years, she has fully embraced him and his administration now as she has sought to win the early primaries by racking up big margins among African-American voters.
It is a strategy that is working well in the primaries, but it is a risky one for the general election.
Many Republicans feel a visceral passion against Obama, and even Democrats who are proud of electing the country’s first black president have often been disappointed at his performance in office.
In short, there may well be a majority of American voters against a third Obama term.
Combined with voter dissatisfaction with the political establishment so evident in the support for Trump, this creates a good deal of uncertainty about a general election that pits an establishment Clinton against an insurgent Trump, regardless of what the spurious “matchup” polls may indicate.
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