Obama nationalizes midterm elections

americanthinker.com ^ | 10/3/14 | Thomas Lifson

[cotton1706]

Yesterday, speaking at Northwestern University’s much-esteemed Kellogg School of Management, President Obama committed a huge strategic blunder.

It has been no secret that Democrats running for Senate seats have been distancing themselves from the unpopular president, often finding excuses not to greet him on the tarmac or appear next to him on the podium when he visits their states. For them, it is imperative that voters separate support for Kay Hagan or Al Franken (for instance) from support for Barack Obama. They want the midterm election to be a local affair, not a national referendum. But President Obama just undid their efforts in this election, chaining them to his unpopular presidency. Chris Cillizza explains in the Washington Post:

Obama just gave every Republican ad-maker in the country more fodder for negative ads linking Democratic candidates to him.

Here are the four sentences that will draw all of the attention (they come more than two thirds of the way through the speech): "I am not on the ballot this fall. Michelle’s pretty happy about that. But make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them." Boil those four sentences down even further and here's what you are left with: "Make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them."

As Cillizza notes, this is gold for 15 second TV spots:

It doesn't take a political mastermind to realize that an ad in which the President of the United States says "Make no mistake: These policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them" might not be helpful to the Democratic candidates trying to run away from him this November.

[cuban leaf]

I read the headline and it reminded me of an article that said that D’s win when the issues are local, and R’s win when they are national. Kinda makes sense.

[ronnie raygun]

Republican ad maker should use the video of the imposter stating he drove over to his hispanic meetinng with two illegals

[catnipman]

You don’t suppose Obama did this on purpose as vengeance against the Democrats who forced him to postpone his illegal alien amnesty until after the election?

Or his he really THAT stupid?

[upchuck]

A large part of this American Thinker article is an excerpt from a WaPo article posted here on FR:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3210517/posts

We excerpt and post articles all the time here on FR. Lifson and some of the other “writers” on American Thinker get paid to excerpt articles. It’s not fair :)

[PoloSec]

Yeah, but are those running against democrats, willing to take advantage, after-all in our current political environment, it is not politically correct for anyone other than a democrat to take advantage of a weakness, it would be unfair.

Make no mistake about it, the entire system has been infected by PC, the communist democrats invented it and know best how to work it.

[Arm_Bears]

The GOP consultant class will do nothing with this assertion as it might be interpreted as a criticism of the first (or second) Black president, thereby upsetting the precious Moderates/Independents.

[Slyfox]

Body Odor Hussein.

You know that smell. You try to remove yourself from their presence. But they keep moving closer to you, infecting the air with their stench.

[painter]

Or his he really THAT stupid?

YES!!

[Verginius Rufus]

I think it’s that he’s so full of himself that he can’t stop himself from saying things like that. And of course he always speaks before friendly audiences who share his ideological outlook.