Faint Signs of the Obama Backlash

From the New York Times' Matt Bai:

I was surprised to find that a friend of mine, a lifelong Democrat who had been pledging his allegiance to Barack Obama all year, had stepped into the voting booth and suddenly changed is mind. He voted, instead, for Hillary Clinton, and here’s why: he’d watched that video online —you know, the one starring celebrities like will.i.am, Scarlett Johansson and Herbie Hancock—and he thought it made Obama look Hollywood smug, as if supporting him were this year’s version of wearing an AIDS ribbon on your lapel. My friend didn’t want anything to do with the latest chic cause, and he just couldn’t bring himself to pull the lever for the guy who now symbolized the things he liked least about Democratic politics, starting with all those stars who think they know more about America than the people who live in it.

Of course, this is but a single instance (which in marketing terms, is good enough to launch a national campaign). Still, I think we'll see a lot more of this...but with so much of the electoral abjectly surrendering to their irrational impulses, it make take a while.

Average: 5 (3 votes)

If the exit polls are true

Obama is a poor pick indeed for the Democratic Party.

The electorate is made up of more than African-Americans, young voters and professionals making $100,000 or more.

Mrs. Clinton appears to do much better with working-class whites and Hispanics.

National elections are won and lost based on those two groups.

Instead of calling him the next Kennedy, he may be the next McGovern. Another Democratic standard-bearer who attracted heavy young and black support but who failed to win the "hardhats" that Kennedy won in 1960.

Does that mean that I have

Does that mean that I have will have to give up hope?

Obama's smugness

I agree I used to like Obama in print and then when I saw him talk- it was the smugness that sent up red flags immediately. An over confident man is a dangerous thing- you need to be confident but have humility to be open to the world around to react to situations in an objective manner. He seems like the emporer's new clothes.

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