Why Obama is a lock

This is where the intuitive part comes in. I have two gut reasons to believe Romney can’t beat Obama. First: I have met both men.

Second: I see plenty of evidence that Obama is getting his message out to his troops much more efficiently than Romney is. It started with a Wells Fargo phone rep almost two years ago, who called to let me know I was “eligible for refinancing through the Making Home Affordable program of the Obama Administration’s 2009 Recovery Act.” When I asked why I had been singled out for the honor, this Wells Fargo employee replied, “If we can get you a loan with a lower interest rate that will stimulate spending in the economy.”

It’s maybe not surprising that Wells Fargo would acknowledge its debt to the government by distributing pro-administration talking points to employees. But how do you explain the Occupy L.A. activist who last fall described to me how her father had to struggle to get refinancing (which he had obviously earned because the bank “was still trying to charge him the same even though the house wasn’t worth that much anymore”), and how the dad and the local church and the bank worked out some principal reduction which was only possible thanks to “a law that the Democrats passed and Obama signed”?