Actually, We Have Four Year Terms Here...
From this week’s Economist , in the conclusion of the leader on health care reform in the United States
Mr Obama had hinted that he might be prepared to do without a public plan. That apparent concession may now be withdrawn. If so, the next seven years are going to be bitterly partisan ones in Washington. (emphasis added)
Put in the books, then: the first prediction for 2012 is an Obama victory!