Friday, July 20, 2012
Bain Attack Backfired on Obama
New Polls Show Bain Attack Hurt… Obama
When you consider the state of our failing and slowing recovery and the cold hard fact that tens of millions of American are either out of work or have stopped looking for work, Obama's poll numbers are defying gravity. There's no way he should be tied with Mitt Romney. So what's keeping Obama afloat?
A lot of pollsters and pundits and nobodies like myself think it's two things. This isn’t a criticism and it will change as we get closer to the conventions, but we don’t really know Mr. Romney yet. The other thing is that President Obama is just so darn likable. Kind of like Cousin Eddie from the "Vacation" movies, Obama might be destructive, selfish, and not terribly bright -- but you just got to like the guy.
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It's not likeability that's keeping The One afloat - he hasn't been likeable since he took office. Every day of his term has been characterized by one dislikeable act after another - his arrogance, his condescension, his sexism, his racism, his dismissiveness and intolerance of dissent - which, contra what his media fanboy protectors and acolytes imagine, they haven't really been able to camouflage. Nor do I think it's primarily fear of being called "racist" that's cutting him this inordinate amount of polling slack, although that's part of it.
Barack Obama appears close in this race when he should be thirty points behind for one over-arching reason: because he's black.
His is the Affirmative Action presidency.
But it only appears that way.
When the votes get tallied on Election Day, the Li'l President will lose by approximately the same margin he won in 2008 - mid single-digits (52-48, 53-47). The 1980 dynamic is at work in this cycle even more than it was thirty-two years ago. Just as Jimmy Carter appeared to be neck and neck with Ronald Reagan but seemed to collapse in the campaign's final days, so it will be this November. Because in reality, neither Mr. Peanut then, nor Red Barry now, was really ever all that close. It's simply that there were voters who were leaning against the incumbent who didn't want to admit it. How much moreso today, when we're under the thumb of not just a stuttering clusterbleep of a miserable failure, but one with delusions of Castroite godhood as well?
Here's the real food for thought: Will The One accept the voters' verdict and relinquish power, no matter how badly he loses? Given his growing string of unconstitutional power grabs and usurpations, I have serious and mounting concerns about even bigger constitutional crises to come.
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