Tuesday’s Election Saw Obama’s Star Fall to Earth!

Flopping Aces ^ | 11-04-09 | Mike's America

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Election WAS a repudiation of Obama! Bad news for Dems in 2010 and 2012!

Writing in the Los Angeles Times on October 25, Peter Nicholas framed the problem perfectly:

Now tack on a trio of state and local political races. With an off-year election fast approaching, Obama is stepping up his commitment to Democratic candidates in hopes that an infusion of campaign charisma might pump up turnout.

What the party is finding, though, is that the electricity of 2008 is tough to recapture. Some Democratic candidates running for local office around the country call the phenomenon the "Obama hangover." It is proving tougher to recruit volunteers and get people to vote.

Despite an all out effort in New Jersey and Virginia, with Obama in ads calling on voters to get "fired up once again" the collective yawn coming from his supporters must be a frightening silence drifting down the halls of the White House.

While exit polls in New Jersey and Virginia showed that 20% and 24% of voters in those respective states were motivated to vote in opposition to Obama, the bigger story here and the one which gives the best indication of where we are headed in 2010 and 2012 was the flip among independent voters away from the Democrats and the absence of younger and black voters who formed the "Obama surge"and helped him win a year earlier. Loss of both these groups spells disaster for Democrats. In part, you can explain the falloff of Obama surge voters by the fact that many of these voters have little interest in state elections in what is regarded as an "off year." But there is more to it than that. There is a growing sense that Obama is not the man they thought he was.

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The Biggest Loser at the White House Election Night
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/11/the-biggest-loser-at-the-white-house-election-night.html

Jake Tapper and Yunji de Nies report:

It’s unclear which White House staffer thought it would be a good idea to have an NBC show called “The Biggest Loser” visit the White House in an episode that aired on what was shaping up to be a tough election night for President Obama and the Democratic party, but the contestants stopped by 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Tuesday night as election returns came in.

The segment featured the contestants – overweight folks trying desperately to lose weight — harvesting vegetables in First Lady Michelle Obama’s White House Kitchen Garden, with the help of assistant chef Sam Kass.

The gang then went into the kitchen and made a big salad.

The contestants and the hosts lavished praise on the Obamas for setting a positive example on healthy eating.

That was followed by a video about hunger in America that so prominently featured Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, it could have been a re-election commercial.

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Tuesday’s Election Saw Obama’s Star Fall to Earth!

One of the more interesting Obamalyptic references I've seen.