The resurrection of Barack Obama? Could be.

David Gergen at CNN says the payroll tax debacle for the Republicans may just be part of a bigger story.  We may be seeing the resurrection of President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats heading into the 2012 elections.  Gergen writes:

After the debt ceiling debacle of last summer, the conventional wisdom among many political analysts was that Obama would go the way of President Jimmy Carter, that Republicans would lose a few seats in the House but retain control, and that the GOP would surge into power in the Senate. In short, Republicans were looking for a clean sweep.

Who believes that now? Obama is still highly vulnerable and could lose, but the CNN poll coming out of the field this week reveals a remarkable turnaround, especially in the past month.

In a mid-November survey, when asked which candidate they were more likely to support, registered voters gave Mitt Romney a lead of 4 percentage points over Obama, 51% to 47%. The mid-December survey found an 11-point switch; Obama now has a 52%-45% edge over Romney. Against Newt Gingrich, Obama has a 16-point lead, 56%-40%. (Ironically, the one Republican candidate who does as well against Obama as Romney is Rep Ron Paul, trailing by the same 52%-45% margin.)

Let’s home Gergen is right.

Read Gergen’s complete article here: http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/22/opinion/gergen-obama-resurgence/index.html

Read about the new CNN poll Gergen mentions here: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/20/cnn-poll-obama-gains-strength-in-2012-matchups/