GOOD NEWS FOR AMERICA

In what is surely good news for America, the reelection of President Obama looks increasingly likely with each passing day.

* Click here: Obama Approval Rating Hits 60 Percent: Poll

*  Obama leads Huckabee by 51 percent to 39 percent, and Romney by 51 percent to 38 percent.

*  Americans back tax increases in debt fix: Reuters poll | Reuters

*  A Quinnipiac poll released last week, found that 60% of voters opposed changes to Medicare.

*  2012 Elections: Could Democrats Retake the House?

*  A May 10 CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey found that 50% of registered voters favored Democrats in a generic Congressional ballot, compared to 46% who said they planned to vote for a Republican.

Six months after suffering a shellacking in November’s midterm elections, Democrats believe they can pick up the 25 seats they need to snatch back the House. Mapping out a path to 2012 may be a fool’s errand this far out. But political momentum and the topography of the electoral landscape suggest that they have a shot at retaking the lower chamber.

So far, the 2012 Republican budget blueprint doesn't appear to include the kind of austerity most voters had in mind. Acrimonious town halls during last month’s spring recess displayed constituents’ unease over Representative Paul Ryan’s budget. And while Republicans insisted that the raucous crowds were ginned up by Democratic activists, a Quinnipiac poll released last week, which found that 60% of voters opposed changes to Medicare, was the latest to underscore the political perils brought on by Ryan’s plan. “From a political standpoint, Medicare reform is very dangerous territory,” election handicapper Charlie Cook wrote last month. “House Republicans are not just pushing the envelope — they are soaking it with lighter fluid and waving a match at it.” 

“Republicans voting to end Medicare is a defining issue of this Congress, and the American people are already rejecting it at town-hall meetings across the country,”