Obama’s trip this Spring to Middle East. 

Not sure that Israel’s political parties’d be sorted (calmed down) and ready to hear or care anything like Obama’s visit. (Don’t you know anything about those ppl…) 

Shouldn’t he wait bit more. Like until June or July. You’ve got 3-4 years timeframe. And you can’t visit every 3 months. 

Then I say should wait until really really effective moment. 

truth-has-a-liberal-bias:

The Emerging Democratic Majority has arrived: women, minorities, and professionals

underthemountainbunker:

Calling all 50 states the day before the election as Nate Silver did is one thing — predicting President Obama’s winning majority 10 years in advance is hard to top.

But that’s what Ruy Teixeira did. Since 2002, when Democrats were at a low point and sinking lower, Teixeira has consistently argued that long-term demographic trends pointed to brighter days ahead for the party. He and John Judis published a book that year, “The Emerging Democratic Majority,” that envisioned a governing majority in the next decade consisting of three rapidly growing voting blocs — women, minorities, and professionals.

Along with young voters, these three groups are credited with powering Obama’s 2008 and 2012 victories. Latinos were critical in contests across the country on Tuesday, especially in Western states like New Mexico (no longer even a swing state), Nevada, and Colorado. African American turnout helped put Obama over the top in states like Ohio. Huge advantages with women helped secure states like Iowa (28% gender gap). And a growing professional class in Virginia and North Carolina — solid red states when Teixeira published his book — put the former in Obama’s camp for a second straight election and kept the latter competitive until the end.

It’s easy to forget now, but after President Bush won re-election in 2004, there was a popular school of thought that America was entering an extended period in which Republicans would hold an unshakable majority. Karl Rove claimed the results as a “realignment” in which evangelical and suburban turnout would destroy the Democrats’ viability as a national party. Other observers like  Michael Barone backed him up. Perhaps not coincidentally, both of them predicted a Romney landslide last week.

Teixeira stuck by his theory, however, and now one of the big post-election questions is whether Obama’s majority is the new political reality in America or a passing phase. TPM talked to Teixeira, now a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a liberal DC think tank, on Thursday about what his research tells him about the future of the party…

Sounds like Tumblr’s investment in having its support unit based in Virginia - wise decision helping the trend?

It is true that tech companies can sure have influence - in so called red states. 

Was the topic of one segment of Brian Lehrer show (WNYC, NYC’s public radio station) this morning, but somehow WNYC website didn’t set up the discussion area - but anyway.

Jodi Kantor of The New York Times on the President’s second term; and a close look at how design and engineering could provide solutions for rising tides and storm surges in the future.

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/2012/nov/12/

and

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/2012/nov/12/obama-ii/

I’d say (without much thinking or checking) 2 thing.

Education (overhaul, reform), but not Lefty push but more focused on 

1. Real great international comparison (create a team to run this comparison to report back, with website setup which is accessible for public and discussion)
2. Securing America’s Sci/Tech/Entrepreneurism (with good number crunch) 
3. With attention to the issue of red states and some wicked social conservative elements, and post-industrial America situations
4. So that America creates education system which ‘updates itself’ and - also secure good job/career prospects for (all?) Americans 
5. (Could have also like what went so wrong? kind of checks too.)

On this, he could push ‘manic’ for 2-3 years and see how it’s going. If it looks like failure, correct on what needs to be corrected. 

Then 2nd is: 

1. Financial regulation (Splitting retail and investment banking - ‘Too big to fail’ issue - UK’s Sir Mervyn King, and Gordon Brown and others. ) 
2. I don’t know how this’d look really in USA. But some number crunching may be possible to see how it’d affect - whether it’d improve the situation for middle class or otherwise. 

Something about the way American economy esp financial sector is going - though that may require more global take - (EU taking too long to really come out from its crisis - why? How are these relevant or irrelevant?: Separating retail and investment banking, and austerity policy). 

vergeofbliss:

all it takes is Ohio or Florida.

Obama unlikely to win by anything like his post-DNC margins. But Romney has no momentum, Obama’s state polling is robust, and time is up.

— Nate Silver (@fivethirtyeight) November 5, 2012