It's a significant disparity if you compare excitement and enthusiasm that Democrats had for Obama in 2008, where he was near messianic, to now where he actually has a record and he's rather mortal. There will be none of that enthusiasm again, it's almost impossible. It had a lot to do in 2008 with the fact that he was almost entirely unknown and was extremely eloquent and was lightning in a bottle. That is never going to happen again. He's got a record now and it's a bad one. So there is no way that you can ever get near that.
But I think even worse for Obama than the decline in the intensity of support among Democrats--because after all, where they are going to go--on election day they'll be out there for him--is the number on independents. The number on independents is staggeringly bad. 31% approval of independents.
Obama won the election of 2008 on the basis of independents, and the first hint of trouble came in the off-year elections at end of 2009 in Virginia and New Jersey, where independents in states that had gone Obama went 2-1 against Obama. Then in the Senate race for the so-called Kennedy seat in January of 2010 the independents went 3 to 1 against Democrats. And I think if Obama cannot rise from the 31% approval he has among independents he is going to suffer a landslide.
Also, Al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki is now sand-flea bait.
This American-born radical Muslim cleric was linked to 9/11 and the Fort Hood shootings. He's spent his entire miserable life trying to destabilize the U.S.
Sort of like those dirty socialists now swarming around Wall Street, I suppose.
It's not even close, not even debatable...
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More Americans still blame President George W. Bush for the economic conditions in the country today, with 52 percent saying Bush and the Republicans are responsible, while 32 percent lay the blame on Obama and the Democrats.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/64794.html#ixzz1ZSNV6dxV
Poll conducted from Sept. 23-25, 2011 surveyed 1,010 adults. The margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Ha! I knew this would get a rise out of you.
ReplyDeleteOf course it's debatable. Haven't you learned anything from 'The Science! it's SETTLED FOREVER!' ?
I haven't heard many good people desirous to call off the election. Wait...there was that Democrat, the Governor of North Carolina, who wanted to suspend all the elections; what was her name? Perdue, perdition, Ms. Marx, something like that. Friend of yours, I'm certain of it.
Of course, if you could, you would immediately suspend ALL elections, dissolve all but the Democratic Party, appoint Obama Dear Leader for Life, and CHANGE this nation to suit just you and your LeftLibProgg buddies, right? Right?
C'mon, you know you would~!
Oh, is there where one lone Dem nut says something stupid, and you take it, run with it, and blather that THIS IS WHAT ALL DEMOCRATS BELIEVE.
ReplyDeleteYep.
Of course, you are now therefore responsible for everything that any nut at a teabagger fest has ever done or said. ALL OF YOU ARE SAME NO DIFFERENCE.
As for William, i think he's being a bit optimistic when judging the cognitive capacities of the American people. This election could go either way. A great many people realize where we are and how we got here, but then there are millions of brain-dead, soda-drinking, pig-ignorant meat puppets who have this vague notion in their clouded brains that "Obama did socialism, and things are bad, so we oughta do the opposite now, yeah boy! I herd that Mitt Romney fella made a lot of jobs or something?"
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.
Your best hope is Millionaire Mitt from the 'joe smith cult.'
ReplyDeletebetter fall in line... or lose.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.
ReplyDeleteBHO's counting on them.
COMMUNITY ORGANIZE THE STUPIDS, BABY~!
I'm beginning to think no one wins, no matter who wins.
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