In fact, almost anything is possible, now that President Obama no longer has to worry about re-election.
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After that, it's time for Congress to worry about re-election, and so they won't go anywhere near a combustible issue like this one.
Entering to the rap track "All I Do Is Win" by DJ Khaled, Obama joked about how re-election would allow him to unleash a radical agenda.
In an interview last month with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Palin said she was unsure about her re-election bid because she needed to focus on her state and her family.
Siding with Santorum are not so affluent religious conservatives and Tea Partiers, both united by an intense dislike for Barack Obama and an almost apocalyptic fear about his re-election.
Inasmuch as Schoen is arguing that Obama's actions as president are more pertinent than those before he took office in reaching a judgment about his re-election, we tend to agree.
Mr Bayh, they said, was nervous about his re-election.
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Bachmann said in a video posted on her website that she had no concerns about her ability to win re-election or about the pending investigations of her presidential campaign.
Many observers in China are now trying to work out whether Mr Obama is actually committed to deeper strategic engagement in Asia or whether he is really thinking about his own re-election, talking up ties with growing Asian economies as he is searching for ways to boost a flagging economy at home.
The piece arrives on a day when Chairman Ray Lane and several other directors are reportedly meeting a group of disgruntled institutional investors in an attempt to muffle discussions by some investors about potentially opposing the re-election to the HP board of Lane and several other directors.
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Medvedev has been pestered by reporters in Moscow all year about whether he will seek re-election.
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All he cares about is his bid for re-election, and whether this latest stunt helps improve the turnout of Latino voters.
My colleague Stephanie Flanders, who knows miles more than I do about American politics, will doubtless write the definitive piece about what Obama's re-election means for the US and global economy.
Though that slowdown has not yet hurt Mr Cardoso much in the opinion polls, formally he remains coy about whether he will run for re-election at all.
Apart from an emphatic denial on August 14th that a devaluation was planned, he has made no public comment about the gravest crisis since his re-election in 1996.
And even though you made the point about cutting the deficit, a lot of people will read about it, hear about this ad -- we're a month away from the election and we're talking about Big Bird.
The Obama administration's concern was heightened last year by questions about the integrity of Karzai's re-election.
While Democratic leaders were confident the Senate bill would pass, there were several moderate Democrats, including some up for re-election, who were concerned about the steep tax hikes in it and indicated they might vote against it.
In the face of a hawkish Republican rival and in front of an electorate that is in parts fiercely pro-Israel, Mr Obama may feel he has to welcome, or even build on, an Israeli fait accompli in a way he would not have done earlier and might not do after his re-election, should it come about.
And there's a second way in which it might be changed: half way through the Parliament - so in about June, I assume - the chair and members of the backbench committee will face re-election.
"It's the only thing that people are talking to me about, " says Chambliss, who is up for re-election this year.
All the same, it says much about Israel's mood that a hardliner cruising for re-election feels the need to accept the principle of Palestinian statehood.
And the Speaker clearly knows that he is attempting to shift the blame even if it is deserved onto a President who has not only just accomplished re-election but never has to worry about running for office again.
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Under the agreement, eight current board members will seek re-election, while Icahn, who owns about 5% of the company, will be appointed to the board.
Under the agreement, eight members of the current board will seek re-election, while Icahn, who owns about 5% of the company, will be appointed to the board.
Mr Bush said that the vice-president "may have crossed a serious line" during the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign in 1996, raising questions about whether Mr Gore can be trusted.
Ronald Reagan was 73 when he ran for re-election in 1984 and we know that issues about his health that were raised then were possibly very relevant.
Brown, who speaks constantly about this bill in his neck-and-neck race for re-election against consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren, said the whole point of passing the law was to demonstrate that members of Congress weren't held to a different standard.
Watts thought about retiring in 2000, but Hastert helped to persuade him to seek re-election.
That, in turn, could hinder his own re-election campaign, which will get under way in about 18 months from now.
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