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Obama Reflects on 2016: I Wasn’t Able to ‘Transfer My Personal Popularity’ to Democrats
mediaite.com ^ | 1/14/17 | Josh Feldman

Posted on 01/14/2017 6:03:29 PM PST by ColdOne

During last night’s NBC Dateline special on President Obama‘s legacy, the outgoing Commander-in-Chief reflected on 2016 and the “surprise” he felt at Donald Trump‘s win.

He told Lester Holt that he thinks he and his team are pretty good at seeing things coming––but not Trump’s victory. Part of that, Obama said, is due to the fact that the polling was so off.

He admitted there was a lot of disappointment at Hillary Clinton‘s loss, as well as the broader loss for the Democratic party.

Obama conceded, “I had trouble transferring my personal popularity or support to the broader cause of the Democratic party.”

He said it was difficult for him to both run the country and rebuild the “grassroots party apparatus” his part

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016issues; bhojobapproval; mememe; obamalegacy
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To: ColdOne

Psssst.....you don’t have personal popularity. You have fake polls.


61 posted on 01/15/2017 4:40:24 AM PST by pinkandgreenmom
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Him doing that and thinking it was OK was the most pathetic thing ever.
That and jeb tippytoes.

Oh, and these:

Obama riding girl's bike

62 posted on 01/15/2017 12:00:37 PM PST by Bon mots
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