Folks, please tell me what, besides all these polls, is making any of you get a gut feeling that Obama is going to win? What facts on the ground can you point to? And please don’t tell me “there’s too many freeloaders, the USA is finished”. If that were the case, Scott Walker would have gotten destroyed in his recall election, as the SEIU and the UFT would have gotten busloads of freeloaders to the polls.
In 2008, as much as I didn’t want to believe that the American people would elect an inexperienced college campus Leftist, my gut feeling was that Obama would win. All the evidence was there. Tons of bumper stickers and lawn signs, huge crowds showing up to hear him speak, Republican voters convincing themselves that if Obama won, he’d be a Clinton-esque Centrist.
In 2004, my gut feeling was that Bush would win a close victory over Kerry. This was based on the fact that Bush’s approval ratings and support for the Iraq war were both over 50%.
So tell me, what, besides “people are more interested in Honey Boo Boo than the election”, and just plain paranoid pessimism is making you think Obama will win?
The old saying that “people vote with their pocketbooks” is as true to today as it ever was. So what are all the good things that people who are paying attention to their pocketbooks are saying about Obama these days? What is Obama doing to make them feel content or optimistic? What is making them say that Obama is the better choice? Because I’m not hearing it, I’m not feeling it, and I see no enthusiasm for Obama at all.
If there is enthusiasm for Zero, they are doing a smashup job of hiding it. In a recent visit to Seattle, I saw not one yard sign, even on the corners were several were lined up. You wouldn’t know he was running. I saw two ‘12 bumper stickers the whole time I was there.
“Folks, please tell me what, besides all these polls, is making any of you get a gut feeling that Obama is going to win?”
That’s absolutely right; there is no reason for (most) people to vote for Obama, and many reasons to vote against him.
“The old saying that “people vote with their pocketbooks” is as true to today as it ever was.”
That’s right, and if it any indication Obama will go down in flames.
“Because I’m not hearing it, I’m not feeling it, and I see no enthusiasm for Obama at all.”
That’s right; even in Newark NJ there is little enthusiasm for Obama.