Posted on 08/24/2012 2:13:39 PM PDT by MissesBush
Barack Obama was swept to the White House in 2008 by a wave of idealism and inspirational campaigning in which he encapsulated the mood of the nation with his slogans of ‘Hope’, ‘Change’ and ‘Yes we can’.
Then, his message was a fundamentally positive one. Americans wanted an end to the Bush era but that almost went without saying. Obama pointed to his own vision of the country; a post-partisan, post-racial America in which gridlock in Washington was ended and common-sense centrist solutions were adopted.
What a difference four years makes. Obama is campaigning ferociously for a second term – and he is a candidate who would have probably have been disdained by the Obama of 2008.
Drawing crowds: While many came to hear Obama speak Wednesday at Canyon Springs High School in Las Vegas, it's nowhere near the numbers he was reaching in 2008 Obama is waging a relentlessly negative campaign of changing the subject from the one that, overwhelmingly, most Americans care about – the economy. Every week there is a new issue his campaign seizes on, preferring to talk about something, anything other than jobs and 8.3 per cent unemployment.
While Obama is still drawing sizable crowds, they are nothing like the size of those who flocked to see him in 2008. In Las Vegas, Obama held a rally in a high school before more than 2,000 people but there was space for plenty more.
On the outskirts of Manchester, New Hampshire on Monday morning, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan attracted more than 3,000 people who patiently queued in lines across a field to be searched by the Secret Service...
But the difference between the numbers Obama is attracting now compared to four years ago should be a cause of deep concern to his campaign.
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I don’t think it’s in the bag, but if I had to bet (even with that moron Akin’s comments), I’d bet on the Pubbies. Obama started with nothing, and he still has a lot of it left. Nothing. This guy is totally clueless. But since the ignorati vote for thieves i.e. Dems in droves, he still has a chance.
I don’t think there is a real upper plate in the bunch...
He spent lots of money we didn’t have. Four more years of his reckless spending would drive the country into bankruptsy forever.
Even before that clown Akins opened his piehole this was gonna be close,real close.I know this for several reasons,one of which is that for weeks Osama's been carpet bombing Boston TV with ads.This is because of New Hampshire,the most heavily populated part of which is a suburb of Boston and watches and listens to Boston stations.New Hampshire has *four* electoral votes and is considered to be very much up for grabs this year.This one *will* be close....2000 Election close.
Barack is supposedly on Twitter. They still won’t let me call it “Titter.com”. They insist that is an unsafe url.
Back in 2008, people were burnt out on Bush, and Obama was a unknown, and the liberal media kept it that way.
Now, Obama has a record, and no amount of liberal propaganda can cover up the record that the American people experience everyday under this loser.
Boo hoo. If campaigning is such a slogging chore why does he seem to do nothing else.
The thing I notice is he's either doing a rally at a high school or junior college , otherwise he's at a fund raiser with a Wall St fat cat or Hollywood celebrity.
The campaign is such a slogging chore because 0bama is such a depressing bore. If you ever get a chance go back and listen to most any speech by Reagan, than listen to one of Barry's depressing tirades. I mean really, how is 0bama's "You Didn't Build That" speech supposed to inspire anyone to rush out and vote for this turd. If anything it would inspire you to take a bottle of sleeping pills with a beer chaser.
He’ll win, of that there is little doubt. (And I’ve gone on record and stand buy it saying we can fight him and that Romney will kill conservatism ... but I digress). But the Liberals I know are not happy at all with him but no way they are going to sit home or vote GOP.
It is a joyless slog indeed. But remember, most people don’t think like we do (nor do most think like the Libs), so don’t be amazed that Obama isn’t disliked as we dislike him.
Exactly!
Why isn’t he wearing makeup? He needs it! He seems pale and he’s got about a thousand moles on his face...
I’m not into hero worship, so I didn’t get phased by Obambi’s BS. I also like to actually look into what people say. I quickly found out he was a liar who was a radical leftist. I hope enough people are fed up with his lies and realize they’ve been duped.
What you term failure, his people covet. 99ers, record EBT/TANF, union waivers, record disability claims, etc.
On Saturday, Obama held two events in New Hampshire, which has four Electoral College votes and on Tuesday and Wednesday he was in Nevada, which has six. Obama, moreover, won Nevada by more than 12 percentage points in 2008. What does this tell us? That Obama is on the defensive and knows the only way he can win re-election is by the narrowest of margins, by ‘slicing and dicing’ – his own pejorative term – and eking out a 51 to 49 per cent victory, crawling across the line to 270 electoral college votes.
They will grow darker with age.
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