Has Barack Obama rediscovered his magic powers just in time to take him back to the White House? In this week’s magazine cover, Harold Evans writes that the 2012 election has been disastrous for the Democratic Party but incumbent president has may have woken up just in time.
On this week’s View from 22 podcast, two Spectator writers discuss whether Obama is on track to win the approaching election. Contributing Editor Douglas Murray thinks he will, albeit reluctantly:
‘Most people go on sense of some kind. My sense is that Obama will probably just scrape back in but my hope is that he doesn’t. Apart from anything else — I think that so many people in Britain and across Europe have think this in the bag — feel outraged that Americans would dare to vote for anyone than President Obama that I would love to see them the morning after.
While assistant editor Freddy Gray agrees, he suggests an Obama win would be down to Mitt Romney’s poor campaigning:
‘I think the state by state breakdown still looks just to be edging in his [Obama’s] favour, but it is going to be very tight.
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