The dearth of 2012 GOP challengers: A 'boon' for Obama

The GOP has been slow to field any 2012 presidential candidates, which bodes well for Obama, says Sam Youngman at The Hill.

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last updated 8 January 2015

In the 2012 presidential race, the Republican Party is getting off to a very sluggish start, and that's a real "boon for Obama," says Sam Youngman at The Hill. Possible Republican candidates may think they have good reason to wait before throwing their hats in the ring, but for "the party as a whole," wasted weeks are going by, robbing the eventual GOP nominee of "time on the battlefield" to learn from mistakes. In the meantime, says Youngman, the president has the stage to himself. Here, an excerpt:

After the midterm defeat, President Obama needed time to rehabilitate himself and reinvent his administration as sympathetic to the wants, needs and anger of the American electorate. Republicans so far have been only too happy to give Obama all the time he needs. ...