The Big Questions: Obama-Biden ’12

In the new issue of TIME (available to subscribers here), Mark Halperin looks at the President's re-election effort.

"The coalition that helped elect the President — fired-up liberals, independents, business interests, a friendly media contingent — has been disbanded....[But] Obama believes the GOP is so in thrall to conservative purity that independent voters will come back to him when they go shopping next fall for a candidate."