{"id":2335,"date":"2008-08-22T11:54:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T15:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2008-08-22T11:54:53","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T15:54:53","slug":"dems-not-quite-happy-with-the-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2335","title":{"rendered":"Dems not quite happy with “The One”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Observer<\/a> makes the point that the reason that Obama can’t pull ahead in the polls is because Democrats have lost the fire in their belly;<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also probably a mistake to assume that all, or even most, of Clinton\u2019s 18 million voters feel a sense of personal loyalty to her \u2013 and that, by extension, millions of votes will come flowing Obama\u2019s way at the snap of his former opponent\u2019s finger.<\/p>\n

To be sure, many Clinton supporters are fanatically loyal to her…. But their loud noise and on-line activism can be very misleading, as Ron Paul\u2019s supporters proved this year. The \u201cPUMA\u201d crowd represents some of Clinton\u2019s 18 million voters, but their devotion is probably not representative of the attitudes of the 50 percent of Clinton voters not currently backing Obama.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Clinton\u2019s primary-season coalition certainly included its share of anti-Obama voters, those who don\u2019t like the Illinois senator or those who didn\u2019t think he\u2019d make a strong fall candidate (or a strong president, for that matter). This didn\u2019t mean they had warm feelings toward Clinton; only that they found her more palatable. Just as significantly, her campaign became the home for much of the old Democratic coalition \u2013 less-educated and lower-income white voters, senior citizens, Hispanics and women.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wonkette<\/a> translates;<\/p>\n

Ever since Obama clinched the nomination, all the fun\u2019s gone out of it. And so Clinton voters have by and large returned to their natural habitat, in front of the teevee, eating the last unpopped kernels of popcorn out of their microwave bags. If Hillary Clinton tells them to vote for Obama, they\u2019ll all just say, \u201cBut that meerkat show is on Animal Planet,\u201d and then they\u2019ll go back to resentfully scrapbooking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, this could all be smoke and mirrors so the media can herald Obama’s defeat of the Democrats’ doldrums with his inspiring and historic speech to the 75,000 supporters (instead of the delegates) and declare his sudden 5-point jump next week proof that he can defeat McCain (and Putin and Il and Ahmadinejad and Chavez, et al.)<\/p>\n

When Democrats start predicting the failure of their candidates in public, I get suspicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Observer makes the point that the reason that Obama can’t pull ahead in … Dems not quite happy with “The One”?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,47,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-liberals-suck","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}