Both Mark Shields and David Brooks say that Nancy Pelosi is an effective leader and that she has the votes to be the House minority leader but that politically, she shouldn't.
Brooks doesn't expect Michele Bachmann to get very far in her quest for a leadership position, which is good to hear. He says republicans need to stick with a humility theme. Mitch McConnell obviously doesn't feel that way. Pundits and the media fail to realize that there's something deeper to the republican opposition of Obama. It's more personal, visceral. Brooks concludes Obama has little chance of winning re-election in 2012 because he's not loved in Ohio. I don't believe this nation was as ready as it thought it was for a Barack Obama. People asked for change and when they got it either it was too little or it was too much, depending on which side of the fence you're on. Then there is the majority of Americans who didn't even bother to vote. Turnout was low compared to 2008, when 132 million voted; 82 million voted in the 2010 midterms and most of the voters were white.
