My guess is because he was hip and happening and trendy and voting for him made people feel good about themselves.
The question is, how do these people, with the economy and the country in tatters, feel now?
Homework assignment for some Freeper in the (SF Bay Area) South Bay/Peninsula/Upper Silicon Valley: see if you can take a tour through the more expensive/exclusive residential neighborhoods and take a tally of yard signs. Drive through, but don't linger or be too obvious about it. What do you see? Whose signs dominate?
Heck, the enthusiasm among Democrat voters is so bad, even CA might go Republican.
Black voters aren't turning out. Obama is down from 2008 in every single demographic; down 22% from 2008 among Independents (one third of the entire electorate); and he has totally lost the blue-collar working Democrats.
In 2008, Obama got the votes of 17% of people who had previously voted Republican -- think that will happen in 2012? No way.
Addendum to this: Anyone who wants to do this, please don't name the neighborhoods or the city or the streets. Just a general idea: what signs and where (generally). We don't want to give the enemy any idea of where to find and uproot any Romney/Ryan signs.
>> My guess is because he was hip and happening and trendy and voting for him made people feel good about themselves.
Yeah, probably something shallow and not too analytical explains it. For such a technology-smart set of folks they’re pretty clueless about how political and economic systems actually work.
Man, you’re all business, aren’t you? I thought the hot-tub wisecrack would at least get an LOL out of you. :-)