RNC Begins Election Countdown

The Republican National Committee released a video Tuesday marking what they say will be the final year of the Obama presidency.

“One year from now the American people will hold President Obama accountable for his abysmal record in the White House,” RNC Chair Reince Priebus said in a statement. “We have suffered through three long years of this president’s failed policies and are ready to change direction.”

The video, released online, opens with footage of the President during the 2008 campaign stating “The real question is: will this county be better off four years from now?”

It is then followed by a montage of news footage depicting signs of the weak American economy, from unemployment lines to the Occupy Wall Street movement.

“The Obama experiment has failed,” the ad states. “Let the countdown begin.”

President Barack Obama’s re-election team has also begun to invoke the proximity of the 2012 election. In an email sent to supporters, Jeremy Bird, the campaign’s National Field Director, notes that Democrats will be doing one of two things on November 7^th, 2012.

“We’ll be celebrating the President’s re-election, and our renewed opportunity to keep moving this country forward. Or we’ll be wondering whether we could have done more — reached out and talked to more people, helped register more voters — when we still had time,” Bird states.