Plouffe Downplays Significance Of Today's Outcomes

Jillian Bandes
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David Plouffe, Obama's campaign advisor, dismissed the notion that VA, NJ and NY could be bellweathers for 2010 on the Today Show:

These are local races, there's 18,000 lifetimes between now and next November.

You'd better hope those 18,000 lifetimes are enough to get your poll numbers up...

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Jillian Bandes is the National Political Reporter for Townhall.com

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Allen Caeden Wrote: Nov 03, 2009 5:16 PM

...live in their own fantasy world. We all know that if it was a Demoncratic sweep Dumbo would be everywhere claiming credit. However, if all the Demoncratics lose, it cannot be because people are rejecting the marxist ideology of Dumbo because he is the "messiah" and the "one". No he is an idiot and not very bright if he cannot read the tea leaves of a Republican/Conservative sweep.

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peacefrog Wrote: Nov 03, 2009 5:06 PM

Right it's not a word.

But it is a well know 'term'!

Used perfectly in the context of Jillian's sentence.

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colt.45 Wrote: Nov 03, 2009 3:16 PM

With the Pluogh or with the wife?

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vladimir estragon Wrote: Nov 03, 2009 2:43 PM

Twice is an error: "bellweather" isn't a word.

Now, I make more typos than anybody I know. But I'm not a blogger with my byline on the story. Can't you find some more Coulter-Wannabes who will volunteer to do a little spell checking?

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Eric, from THE Republic of Texas Wrote: Nov 03, 2009 2:37 PM

Say what you want about Palin... the old saying "you can't beat something with nothing" was proven wrong when Obama won last year.

The man was out there saying nothing better than it had ever been said and continues to do so as if he's still campaigning.

Obama won an anti-Bush election last year because he simply had a "D" behind his name, period.

We could run Obama's mop or telepromter against him in 2012 and Barry would lose by a landslide.

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sceptyczny Wrote: Nov 03, 2009 2:23 PM

has been GOP for about 140 years. What does that have to do with Obama?

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Val114 Wrote: Nov 03, 2009 2:15 PM

i thought he was dead. Oh well.

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paddy o'furniture Wrote: Nov 03, 2009 2:06 PM

What's a plouffe?

Isn't that the sound you make when you take your morning pelosi....?

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Jeremy67 Wrote: Nov 03, 2009 1:57 PM

17,999 to go ...

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Dread Wrote: Nov 03, 2009 1:57 PM

That we keep harping on Obama's poll numbers when the Republican leadership typically polls far lower than even Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.

In the absence of a more credible party figure or leader, I cannot see Obama's current poll numbers as a trend toward GOP resurgence. And right now, you do not have such a leader.

Palin is polarizing, probably as much so as Obama. Huckabee would win evangelicals, but would probably lose the Chamber of Commerce Vote. Romney is the opposite of Huckabee.

I suppose you could try to fast-track Jeb Bush (though his name would be toxic), Jindal (though most of your past criticisms of Obama would be invalid then), or Rubio (assuming he wins the FL election), but none of these...

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