Note that Obama's approval rating in April of 2011 was headed straight for the toilet, the expected trend since gasoline prices were rising rapidly at that time. But on May 1, 2011 Navy Seal Team 6 assassinated Osama Bin Laden, and this jacked up Obama's approval by about 10 percentage points. This was then followed by a fairly steep decline in Obama's approval, bottoming in the high 30's in late fall of 2011. The rating then recovering all the way up to 48% in late February and early March of 2012, as gas prices fell from the peak in June of 2011 to the first of the year in 2012. The recent gasoline price rise has halted Obama's approval rating increase, which topped out at 48% and dropped to 46% in the latest polls. Recall that according to inviolable US election law, a minimum approval rating of 50% is the sine qua non of re-election victory.
To get re-elected Obama must cause gas prices to fall, which he can do for example by releasing oil from the US Strategic Oil Reserve. Re-election also depends vitally, most crucially, and most def on Israel not launching an attack on Iran. That's why Obama will do anything at all that Netanyahu and Israel ask for between now and the election. Netanyahu owns Obama, his back, his front, his everything. He is Obama's Daddy, and even much much worse metaphors come to mind. In particular, Obama will not utter a peep no matter what attacks Israel launches against Gaza, and the same goes for settlements and peace talks. In the immortal words of Gilbert Godfrey: "SOB!!"
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