Could Obama pull out of Presidential campaign?
Could Barack Hussein Obama become the first American President since 1968 not to run for reelection? Yes, says Democratic strategist Dick Morris. As bad news piles up for the Democrats, I asked a top Democratic strategist if it were possible that President Obama might “pull a Lyndon Johnson” and soberly face the cameras, telling America that he has decided that the demands of partisan politics are interfering with his efforts to right our economy and that he has decided to withdraw to devote full time to our recovery. His answer: “Yes. It’s possible. If things continue as they are and have not turned around by January, it is certainly possible.”Hmmm.
Just looking at Michelle Obama’s unsmiling face during her husband’s recent speech to Congress triggered an insight: These folks aren’t having fun anymore.
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Obama’s historic race to the top in 2008 was animated by huge margins and turnouts among four key groups: African-Americans, Hispanics, Jews and young voters. New polling data and the results of the Brooklyn-Queens Turner-Weprin elections suggest that his base is decaying, chunk by chunk.
· An analysis of the past three Fox News surveys indicates that Obama’s job approval rating among voters younger than 30 has declined to 44 percent. By combining the past three surveys, Fox News was able to accumulate data on 600 under-30 voters indicating a sharp decrease in the president’s approval from his former supporters.
· According to Gallup, Obama’s approval among Hispanics has also dropped to 44 percent. Aggregating data from recent polls, as Fox News did, Gallup concluded that the president’s ratings among Hispanics were not much higher than among the general electorate.
· The election of Republican Bob Turner in the single most Jewish district in America — one that had not gone Republican since the 1920s — shows the decay in Obama’s Jewish support. Alienated by his perceived anti-Israeli bias, Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jews voted in massive numbers for Turner. Results in heavily Jewish areas reflected his desertion. But even such neighborhoods as Forest Hills, Queens, populated by Reform and Conservative Jews, showed the candidates running almost even.
Only the African-Americans remain of Obama’s 2008 coalition. Surveys show his approval among blacks at higher than 80 percent, indicating no diminution of his enthusiasm there.
Yet the entire campaign strategy of the Obama people is to move to the left, fanning class warfare, to elicit strong liberal support. Rather than compensating for his loss of liberals by reaching out to independents and traditional swing voters, he just doubles down on his appeal to the left, further alienating the middle.
But the kind of enthusiasm Obama kindled in 2008 cannot be ignited easily by negative appeals. Particularly if the Republicans nominate a more moderate candidate such as Mitt Romney, Obama will not be able to rely on partisan animosity to succeed where job approval has failed. And, given all that, he might not even run.
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Campaign 2012
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:40 PM
4 Comments:
Obama is in trouble for one very big reason: the economy. If it doesn't turn around by next year, he will likely lose his re-election bid. The Democrats in the Senate would have to run for re-election with an unpopular President dragging them down and they look set to lose their Senate majority.
These are not good times for either the Administration or the party he heads.
Obama isn't going anywhere. The powers that be in the Democratic party that wish for him to withdraw are kidding themselves. They used their super-delegates to supersede the will of the democratic voter and chose Obama over Hillary. Now they can pay the piper. Their leader is an egomaniac who has absolutely no business being President of the US and will provoke the largest republican landslide in history no matter who the republican candidate happens to be.
I hope the dems choke on their misogyny.
"Only the African-Americans remain of Obama’s 2008 coalition. Surveys show his approval among blacks at higher than 80 percent, indicating no diminution of his enthusiasm there."
Still judging him by the colour of his skin instead of by the contents of his character.
Of course the REAL racists are the Tea Party'ers...
Real trouble just might be looming ahead for Obama. Herman Cain is the true Black candidate. If he is the nominee, the Black vote gets split.
Can you imagine the debates between Obama and Cain?
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