http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13357.html
Autumn Angst: Dems fret about Obama
By DAVID PAUL KUHN & BILL NICHOLS | 9/10/08 7:31 PM EST
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A major Democratic fundraiser described it a good bit more starkly after digesting the polls of recent days: “I’m so depressed. It’s happening again. It’s a nightmare.”
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“The [Obama] campaign is beginning to look like other campaigns,” said a former top strategist for past Democratic presidential campaigns, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “Obama is struggling with working-class whites just like John Kerry, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Michael Dukakis did, and Walter Mondale. He’s struggling with voters in the border-state South. And he’s struggling with an enormous wind at his back, a hatred for George Bush and a mainstream media that is little short of a chorus for his campaign.”
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Originally posted by zeeblebotWhy is the highlighted guy in this list, or are you in a round about way saying that regardless of sweeping into office or not the Autumn blues are just a fact of Democratic pre election jitters?
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“The [Obama] campaign is beginning to look like other campaigns,” said a former top strategist for past Democratic presidential campaigns, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “Obama is struggling with working-class whites just like John Kerry, Al Gore, **-Bill Clinton-**, Michael Dukakis did, and Walter Mondale.
By putting Bill in this list you actually disarm the impact of your stated point of view and actually offer Obamerites a great shot in the arm of hope.
P.S. You are doing a great job for us. The money will be in the paper bag at the usual drop off point...Thanks...
Originally posted by kmax87you could've read the article ...
Why is the highlighted guy in this list, or are you in a round about way saying that regardless of sweeping into office or not the Autumn blues are just a fact of Democratic pre election jitters?
By putting Bill in this list you actually disarm the impact of your stated point of view and actually offer Obamerites a great shot in the arm of hope.
P.S. ...[text shortened]... g a great job for us. The money will be in the paper bag at the usual drop off point...Thanks...
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Clinton, of course, was the only one of these Democrats to actually win the struggle. As he could tell Obama, voters want to know how their lives would be bettered by an Obama presidency in very specific terms. This connection (along with independent Ross Perot) is what powered his upset run against George H.W. Bush in 1992.
Clinton probably would have offered Obama that advice personally months ago — but the two men were scheduled to have their first campaign-year meeting on Thursday, just over 50 days from Election Day.
The Expectations Game: Anyone who thinks the presidential election should be a layup for Obama should remember that Democrats have broken the 50 percent barrier in presidential elections only twice since 1944.
Did Obama himself forget?
Even if he didn’t, he let a narrative take hold in the news media and among many of his own supporters that led to expectations that he should be far ahead, leading to disappointment when he isn’t.
“A lot of Democratic elites thought this was a slam-dunk. And I thought, no it’s not,” said Lake, the pollster. “People in this town were already measuring drapes. And I was thinking, have you been in the real world lately?
“If you have been involved in campaigns, you thought it was going to be close for a year,” she added. “And I think a lot of Democratic elites are waking up to that.”