Obama to re-emerge in ‘delicate dance’ with Dems

The Hill via MSN ^ | 8-11-17 | Video by Veuer

[afraidfortherepublic]

Former President Obama will re-emerge on the national scene this fall, though Democrats expect him to do so with caution.

One aide describes the beginning of a "delicate dance" that aims to put Obama in the Democratic fray, but prevent him from remaining the face of the party.

Aides will huddle with Obama in the coming weeks to plot out what shape the former president's fall schedule will take. Advisers close to him say that while he will play an active role in helping his party rebuild, much of his work will be behind the scenes.

He is likely to take on fundraising, for example, something he has done for the Democratic National Committee and the National Democratic Redistricting Committee since leaving office.

In recent months, Obama has played a larger behind the scenes role than was publicly known.

The Hill reported in July that he met with DNC Chairman Tom Perez as well as lawmakers at his office to give his guidance on a number of issues.

But advisers to the former president acknowledge he also doesn't want to be "a foil" -as one top ally put it - for President Trump and the Republican leadership.

[LS]

It’s a half-full/half-empty thing. Before the election I predicted Trump would win with “between 300 and 320 electoral votes”-—but that it would be close, in that 30 or more of those electoral votes would be very small margins (NH, VA, WI, MI, PA, ME).

Trump lost 7 states by 560,000 votes, or just a little more than Zero won the whole election. These would account for about 40 more electoral votes. The “flip factor” for Trump to win in 2020 is therefore 231,000 in those states.

Well, given the voter registration changes I’ve followed since November, Trump already should pick up NH and probably ME; would be VERY close in NM and NV. I “believe” he’ll win MN, but because they don’t do party voter registration, I don’t have data to back that up.

I guess what I’m saying is that Trump was closer to a massive blowout than Obama was to staying in office.

PA, MI, NC,FL and WI all had a 3% black voter decline. Two ways to look at that. Traditional thinking is “well, they’ll be back next time with a different candidate.” I look at it differently. These are permanent defections. They’re done with the D party. But they didn’t quite yet make the jump to Trump. In 2020, that 3% will-—but another 5-7% will take the first step and not turn out again.

Game over.

[Rockitz]

Hopefully just in time for him to be indicted in illegal surveillance, complicity in Seth Rich’s murder, treason for the Iran deal, etc, etc.

[Texas Eagle]

EVERYthing Ubama does is delicate.