Posted on 08/20/2008 9:40:08 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Though Obama's veep selection is imminent, he seems to be "Biden his time" (ha!) until later in the week to make the announcement. But with a slew of recent polls showing his lead against John McCain diminished or gone completely, some big news might be just what Obama needs. An LAT/Bloomberg poll has Obama up by just two points, while a Zogby poll released this morning shows McCain — yes, McCain — with a five-point lead. We've noted before how cyclic, ephemeral swings in the polls tend to send political observers into a frenzy. But these polls are part of a longer, more ominous trend for Obama. His momentum has vanished, the race has drawn to a dead heat, and Republicans are, maybe for the first time, showing some real optimism.
• Chuck Todd and friends contend that "there is no longer this widespread belief among the wise guys and gals of both parties that we're all just sitting around waiting for this race to break in Obama's direction." The Obama campaign can't afford to make mistakes, and the McCain campaign "thinks it can win," which "wasn’t the case a few months ago." [First Read/MSNBC]
• Nate Silver proclaims that "we are getting to the point where it would be hard to describe the election as anything other than 'too close to call'" (and that was before the new Zogby poll). [FiveThirtyEight]
• Michael Goodwin speculates that the media's "fawning coverage" of Obama, which the McCain campaign has highlighted with "The One," its nickname for the Democrat, may have caused voter resentment. [NYDN]
(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...
Still a chance for the Democrats to pull out of this current slump.
Send in Pebbles.
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., the charismatic, messianic Magic Negro, as “Bam Bam”, and Herself, still the Cold and Joyless, as “Pebbles”.
“Michael Goodwin speculates that the media’s “fawning coverage” of Obama, which the McCain campaign has highlighted with “The One,” its nickname for the Democrat, may have caused voter resentment.”
I totally agree with this comment.
Tremendous unease out there on the Dem side. They are trapped. They can’t get rid of Obama, but they can’t win with him either.
Obama is going to be like one of those boy bands ((New Kids, Minudo). The media goes wild, huge crowds, then all of a sudden people wake up and are embarrassed to admit they ever listened.
Operation Chaos resumed.
Crap. I wish they’d hold their fire until after the convention (and nomination). ZerObama will be the easier candidate to beat.
Thus is Obama become the Democrats' modern day tar baby...
Related FR Thread ( I did post the article ):
Obama's skewer-the-messenger strategy ( Saul Alinsky taught tactics for Community Activists )
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Socialist and community activist Saul Alinksy taught organizers to ridicule opponents when the arguments of their opponents could not be refuted by logic, evidence or argument. He advocated denying the truth or just plain lying. In Alinksy's world, the end always justified the means.
Alinsky's acolytes on the left have learned the lesson well. Because they dare not address the questions raised, they attack the one asking the questions.
Supporters of Barack Obama are in paroxysms over Jerome R. Corsi's best-seller "The Obama Nation," attacking the 304-page book and its author on minor details contained within its pages, while deliberately ignoring and obfuscating the larger points Corsi makes about Obama's questionable alliances, practices and qualifications for president.
You know they still don’t get the fact that they are yet again running a horrible candidate. If one thing is a certainty they (the left) seem to have a suicidal tendency to nominate some of the worst candidates based upon emotional fluff when reasoned analysis and even worse political analysis. The Democrats need first to accept the fact this is a Center Right nation. People don’t want to see gay pride parades at their county fair, they don’t want to see their daughters having abortions or their sons having babies(I know the it was trans gendered), they know that big taxes on the rich also hit them in the pocketbook, they don’t want to see our soldiers dead but neither do they want to see then brought home to defeat, they don’t want to see their kids being force to learn Spanish while illegals are granted amnesty and still don’t learn English.
Once they accept that they only have the advantage when people aren’t fully paying attention, when people are only hearing their slogans not the details they might start choosing candidates that are close enough to the mainstream to win in the general election. They won’t and that is good for us. Let them keep nominating the anti-war traitors and the neo-reverse racism types like Obama who want to take us even deeper into the old tired socialism that even now the chains of which Europe is starting to throw off.
I can see a post-election whine that the Americans don’t deserve somebody as great as me.
I hope it happens on Prime Time TV...maybe in a Big Stadium....that would paint the entire Left in a Lovely Picture....
The Dark Side of the Force is being manipulated to bring them to their ruin.:-)
Obama has been pushed "IN OUR FACE" and down our throats since George Bush was inaugurated the second time.
More than anything (we all know all the negatives about Barry) it was total OVERKILL and people are OVER HIM ALREADY!
Only the cheer leading, talking point repeating, DNC lapdog, Obamination campaigning disguised as reporting political observers, have entered the FRENZY zone.
The rest of the country is just grinning.
Just in time for the Democrat convention. This is going to be good.
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