Does CIA Assassination of Bin Laden Make Obama a Shoe-In for 2012?

05-02-2011 • NakedCapitalism.com/

Al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden is dead and the United States has his body, a person familiar with the developments says. President Barack Obama is expected to make that announcement from the White House late Sunday night. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to speak ahead of the president. How does this development change the election dynamics for 2012? Does this, as some correspondents have suggested, give Obama a lock for 2012, or could a flagging economy undo the boost he will get from this success? How does this change the prospects for various Republican presidential candidates?