Tuesday, August 05, 2008
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Going the Wrong Way
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Posted by:
Carol Platt Liebau at
12:42 PM
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A new ATV/Zogy poll has some incredibly disturbing news for Obama partisans. I know, I know -- Zogby polls may not always be the most accurate in the world, but the point is that they show some trends for Barack that aren't good at all.
In fact, here are how the numbers stack up.
-Among voters aged 18-29, Obama lost 16 percent and McCain gained 20. Obama still leads, 49-38;
-Among women, McCain gained 10 percentage points. Obama now leads 43-38;
-Among independents, Obama lost an 11 point lead. They're now tied;
-Among Democrats, Obama's support dropped from 83 percent to 74 percent;
-Among Catholics, Obama lost the 11 point lead he had in July and now trails McCain by 15.
The piece delicately notes that the erosion may be attributable to McCain's ads about Barack in the wake of his foreign "getting to know you" trip. Ya think?
The point is that Obama has long been a Rorschach candidate -- someone who spoke in a delicately ambiguous way that sounded good, and allowed everyone to see what they wanted to see in him.
Now, the McCain campaign is connecting the dots, and many Americans don't like what they see -- whether it's the "we are the ones we've been waiting for" hubris, the efforts to take all sides of a position (e.g. on offshore drilling, FISA and so much more), or even, fairly or not, the over-the-top behavior of wacked-out partisans like Ludacris. Most of all, it may have been Barack's own resort to the race card last week (a truly dumb strategic move) that has undermined his carefully crafted image as a "new kind of politician."
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As America wakes up to the change of hope mired in the retoric of the balmy afterbirth covered empty box that is Barrack Huesein Obama. The layers of the rotton onion of his campaign show the anti-American, anti-economy, anti family view this man holds. The only thing that scares me is the Hillary card. Will he pull it? Did the GOP keep it's powder dry long enough to ensure a divided DNC aka recreate 68'. I think it is absolutly important for McCain to announce his pick for VP in advance of Obama. If Obama taps Hillary and she accept, it will reverse these gains. Unless McCain taps the right VP nominee. My suggestions would be Joe Arpiao for his stance on immigration, or Micheal Steele because of his conservative well spoken demeanor. But we need an outside the box conservative nomiinee for VP who is not a sitting member in government. That is not a Mitt Romney. |
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Obama supporters can spin it all they want. I'd advise them and their fawning fans in the media to put away their secret decoders rings and get back to trying to address issues.
Calling McCain and his campaign racists and following it up with accusations of phallic symbols, miscengenation, and the like just ain't paying off. Nobody is buying that spin--but it's surely fun watching them try.
I suggest getting back to those positions of no drilling, keeping cars tuned, filling tires with air, singling out one industry for a tax, and redistributing wealth. Er, maybe I would go back to calling McCain a racist. |
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John McCain is a complete and well-formed man. Barack Obama is completing himself. As he moves to fit what he perceives to be a right-of-center country, he distances himself from the simple and authentic passion of a young candidate who once pledged "Change We Can Believe In."
This is the trap Barack Obama has made for himself, the one he cannot escape, the one Hillary Clinton foresaw, the one that may doom him. The Obama campaign knows it too. In fear the dream is being lost drop-by-drop, they are going negative on John McCain.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-castellanos/the-molten-c ore-of-barack_b_116904.html
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In the defining moment of his life, McCain was willing to give everything for one thing, and that one thing was his country. Contrast that with Obama, who has told America that he is "a proud citizen of the United States and a fellow citizen of the world." Obama is the talented salesman who seduced one state after another saying "Iowa, this is our moment," "Virginia, this is our moment," "Texas, this is our moment," and then tells Europe, "people of Berlin, people of the world, this is our moment." How many times can Barack Obama sell the same moment to everyone, before he becomes Mel Brooks in "The Producers"? Who is Barack Obama? His campaign, as it reupholsters him before our eyes, says we can never know -- perhaps because Barack Obama does not know himself. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-castellanos/the-molten- core-of-barack_b_116904.html
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