The Economy will be important, although the Unemployment number isn’t the best gauge, that would be the Underemployed number. But as any student of politics will tell you, there’s plenty of opportunity for events unforeseen to greatly influence the race. Could anyone have predicted how a Katrina would damage Bush? Or how Rn0;wi2ning” the government shutdown war would help Clinton?I can’t get too excited about what will happen in November, 2012 when we haven’t even seen what the results of the 2010 election will yield.But by any measure, Obama LOST BIG in 2010′s elections. So just stop fighting the tape on that one.