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Obama Pleads for His Base to Turn Out
Commentary Magazine ^ | April 26, 2010 | Jennifer Rubin

Posted on 04/26/2010 10:45:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

This report [1]tells us a lot about where Obama stands politically and the degree to which he has frittered away the promise of his candidacy:

The Democratic National Committee this morning released this clip of the president rallying the troops, if rather coolly, for 2010. Obama’s express goal: “reconnecting” with the voters who voted for the first time in 2008, but who may not plan to vote in the lower-profile Congressional elections this year.

Obama speaks with unusual demographic frankness about his coalition in his appeal to “young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women who powered our victory in 2008 [to] stand together once again.”

Several things are noteworthy. First, so much for the post-racial presidency. We are back to naked pleas for racial solidarity. This comes from a man who told us that there were no Blue States or Red States, and that we should stop carving up the electorate into ethnic and racial groups. It was moving and appropriate and now it’s inoperative.

Second, this also suggests that just about everyone else in the electorate is a lost cause — whites, men, independents, and older voters. The Obama coalition has fractured — a little later than Hillary Clinton predicted, but it has. It seems he is reduced to the core left, not a recipe for successful governance or re-election.

And finally, the Democrats are in big, big trouble if they are banking on casual voters, especially young people, to turn out in large numbers in a midterm election. I’ll go out on a limb (I really don’t have to, because you can look at the turnout in New Jersey and Virginia) — the electorate in 2010 is not going to resemble the 2008 electorate. It will be older and more conservative. In other words, the Democrats are throwing a Hail Mary.


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2010; blacks; congress; democrats; gotv; obama; politics; senate
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Can Atheists, Muslims, Wiccans and Unitarians throw a "Hail Mary" pass?
1 posted on 04/26/2010 10:45:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not in good conscience.


2 posted on 04/26/2010 10:46:47 PM PDT by Persevero (If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?)
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Obummer Leads With His Baser Instincts to Turn Against Americans


3 posted on 04/26/2010 10:51:21 PM PDT by bunkerhill7
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To: Persevero

He is a little early making this plea. Most of these people can’t remember from day to day..let alone 6 months.
Most of them don’t know what day of the week it is..so Tuesday is like tomorrow..every day.


4 posted on 04/26/2010 10:51:47 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Add to the list Al Qaeda, they will eventually fumble the pass anyway!


5 posted on 04/26/2010 10:53:50 PM PDT by dhuynh73 (Reagan Country)
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Obama Pleads for His Base to Turn Out


So he’s hoping that SEIU thugs and ACORN freaks will come out and vote 50 times for Democrats


6 posted on 04/26/2010 10:59:02 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The point is that Obummer is now “The Man” He is the power. The idiots that generally get fired up to vote for Democrats are asleep. They have gotten their victory and it rings hollow. They continue to get their homes forclosed and their cars repossessed. The fat cats on Wall Street continue to get multi million dollar bonuses and they remain festering in self loathing rage in the projects and the patronage job that they are certain underpays them and over works them with their five hour work days and six weeks of vacation.

They will not vote. They do not fear Republicans.They have scene the enemy and it is Obama. He is haughty, incompetent and non too pleasant and he won't STFU already.

They stay home center right Independents and left, right, and Center Republicans RUSH to the polls to vote in protest.

The Democrats will pay as they must. They must be punished, and the time that the Republicans have spent in the wilderness better have steeled them for the resolve to push back on Obama by defunding ALL his programs and bashing him into oblivion.

7 posted on 04/26/2010 10:59:20 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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IMHO They’re too close too endgame to allow any possibility of the almost-guaranteed beating the Dems will suffer in November. Amnesty, outright election theft, false-flag/staged provocation...take your pick. With full MSM collusion.

This is going to get ugly.


8 posted on 04/26/2010 11:00:07 PM PDT by SirLurkedalot (Bible-toting, Constitution-loving, gun-clinging, tyranny-hating American hoping for change)
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Please don’t throw Mary’s name into this mix!
He has screwed the young voters with ObamaCare, and 3 generations of debt! He has screwed Blacks with La Raza inspired support for illegal immigrants. He has screwed working people with coming VAT tax, and loss of freedom over Health Care decisions. He has screwed auto workers with GM and Chrysler takeovers, which will fail in the near future. He has screwed 401k investors with coming new taxes and regulations. He has failed to create any jobs. He has screwed Jewish liberals with antiIsraeli policies. He has screwed technology workers with cancelation of F22 and Manned Space program, and other defense contract cutbacks. Yep who hasn’t he screwed: Atheists, Muslims, Wiccans, Unitarians, and terrorists!


9 posted on 04/26/2010 11:03:04 PM PDT by J Edgar
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The old but new Dead End Kids.

10 posted on 04/26/2010 11:03:31 PM PDT by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress!)
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Obama Pleads for His Base to Turn Out

Yeah, you hoodlums just ignore that 44% unemployment rate. Vote for my commie Democrat partners, and I promise I'll double it to 88%.

11 posted on 04/26/2010 11:21:47 PM PDT by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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Community Organizer. Such high qualifications for President.


12 posted on 04/26/2010 11:22:58 PM PDT by Mark (Don't argue with my posts. I typed while under sniper fire..)
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Some of those young people should be hopping mad about the Nanny State that is going to force them to buy health insurance that they dont want. Maybe they will wise up and turn out to vote against the RATS this time.


13 posted on 04/26/2010 11:27:07 PM PDT by freespirited (I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. --Robert Frost)
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Obama’s base of ignorant 20 somethings just got told they have to buy health insurance to pay for senior's Viagra among other things...

Somehow I think they lost their enthusiasm to vote for more of the same...

14 posted on 04/26/2010 11:56:33 PM PDT by DB
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To: Oldexpat

LOL!


15 posted on 04/26/2010 11:58:33 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Release Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich and let him and his family get on with their lives.)
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To: DB

Not me.

What do you have in your stash, Obama?

I’m part of your ‘base’. Show me the money!


16 posted on 04/27/2010 12:17:40 AM PDT by BenKenobi
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Title should read, “Obama wants race war with white America.” Why bother.. He’s already won.


17 posted on 04/27/2010 12:32:56 AM PDT by historyrepeatz
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obammy didn’t pay my lectric bill.


18 posted on 04/27/2010 4:01:04 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Just say NO to RINOs. (FUBO))
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An awlful lot of caucasian Americans both men and women must have supported him in 2008 to win ,, he may not want all of them to return to the polls in Nov. and 2012 and that’s why he’s creating a new racial crisis . I think he knows he’s losing independents and other centress voters and he plans to fill the gap with the illegal alien votes . About 30% of this coumtry leans socialist/communist and THAT’S HIS BASE !


19 posted on 04/27/2010 4:47:13 AM PDT by lionheart 247365 (-:{ GLEN BECK is 0bama's TRANSPARENCY CZAR }:-)
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Obama Pleads for His Base to Turn Out

Translation: "Get off the pipe and vote!"

20 posted on 04/27/2010 4:48:28 AM PDT by Caipirabob
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