Isn’t Andrew Sullivan a liberal blogger? This isn’t our side getting giddy - it’s their side panicking.
The thing about the debate is that it affected Obama supporters in a profound way. I was never going to vote for him, but Obama’s performance just broke the spirits of his supporters.
It was as if the scales were lifted from their eyes and they saw that they had been following a false messiah.
Yes, Sullivan is a big liberal and Obama supporter. That’s why stories like this are so telling. Even his most ardent supporters believe it is over.
Simple. The guy that Obama told people he was running against never existed and people found this out. They also found that Obama is nothing but a talking points machine for his media stenographers.