Why not? Its all about PR and image-what better feed back than to assume the role you mention at a time when Obama is vulnerable

Re: WTF Is Mitt Doing Overseas? -- Beachboy
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Add it up: The prediction models look dismal for Obama. Can he still win?

by Jeff Greenfield

Depending on whom you turn to, the key lies in second quarter real GDP growth, the optimism or pessimism of the electorate, individual or family real income growth or a dizzying mix of these and other measurements.

They’re usually economic, although one prognosticator—Allan Lichtman, history professor at American University—uses broader measurements, asking whether the incumbent or challenger is charismatic or whether the incumbent party has presided over a major change in social policy. (This is considered a positive, although I don’t know if we’ve ever had a case like the Affordable Care Act, which—unlike every other major social change—passed without bipartisan backing and remains broadly unpopular.)

So it’s with that skepticism in mind that I offer, not a prediction, but a flat pre-election assessment: If President Barack Obama is to win, he is going to have to overcome a set of numbers that no incumbent President, or incumbent party, has ever managed to surmount.

1.5% GDP number is distorted- really lower do to govt employees kicked to the kirb or some such shit

Coca cola is on crack
Related link: http://news.yahoo.com/add-it-up--the-prediction-models-look-dismal-for-obama--can-he-still-win-.html

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