Posted on 10/14/2010 9:33:10 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
Apparently, the president is having such a hard time of it politically that he is even losing faith in part of his base—academia. In a recent campus appearance, his handlers evidently felt the need to salt the crowd with a few ringers. The event took place just a few blocks up the street from the White House, in the heart of Obama country.
“George Washington University students were dismayed Tuesday that they never got to see the man they helped elect president in 2008,” Ben Giles reported in The Washington Examiner on October 13, 2010. “President Obama, whose election was fueled by young voters, held a town hall meeting at the school just across town from the White House, but only about 20 of the 120 people allowed to participate were from the university and only a handful of those were students.”
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it isn’t looking too good for dems in this cycle.
The “students” and other youngsters aren’t going to turn out.
MO is back on the campaign trail as a “mom” as the last best hope for dems.
They’re running short on that Hopium.
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