Weakness Underestimated

Sean Trende is senior elections analyst for RealClearPolitics. In this article he makes the point that it doesn't take a particularly strong candidate to defeat an incumbent. And he notes that:

Our chattering class hasn’t fully accepted how weak the president really is.

Speaking of Romney, Gingrich, and Perry, he concludes:

Whether they are strong enough to actually win a race against Obama is still an open question. But given the very real weakness of the current president, I would not be surprised if any of them were very much in the game come November 2012.