Obama: 'Close Election' Due to Weak Recovery

“If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition,” President Obama said shortly after taking office on February 2, 2009. He was then referring to the economic recovery but, over three years later, the president’s words seem prescient.

Consider what Obama told Rolling Stone in an hour long interview that was just released this morning. “The fact of the matter is that times are still tough for too many people, and the recovery is still not as robust as we’d like, and that’s what will make it a close election.”