Reply #12: It's a gamble that is well worth it [View All]

[kctim]

and President Obama knows this.

Piss off the "left" and 3 out of 10 will throw a tantrum and sit out the next election. The remaining 7 will still vote for the Democratic candidate no matter what.
Piss off the moderates and 7 out of 10 will vote for the moderate Republican.
Lose 3 votes and have them float around in limbo, or lose 7 votes and have them placed in the other sides column?
Clinton learned this the hard way, luckily, President Obama is intelligent enough to learn from Clinton's mistake.