Little-Acorn
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As Democrats continue to lie and get caught, break promises, and frantically try to change the subject, their voters are steadily draining away.
It's gotten to the point where other Democrat politicians are pretending they don't know Barack Obama and want nothing to do with him.
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From patron saint to pariah how Barack Obama became toxic for Democrats - Telegraph
From patron saint to pariah: how Barack Obama became toxic for Democrats
With midterm elections only two weeks away, Democrat candidates are doing something they never would have dreamed of in 2008: distancing themselves from President Barack Obama
President Obama's low approval ratings may cost Democrats in the mid-terms Photo: CAROLYN CASTER/AP
By Peter Foster, Washington
8:00AM BST 21 Oct 2014
Six years after Barack Obama helped Democrats to a slew of surprising electoral victories in Republican states, pollsters and pundits alike agree that the once-charismatic US president has become an electoral liability in November’s mid-term elections.
It has been a stunning reversal of fortunes for Mr Obama, whose celebrity status helped get Democrats elected in several Republican states in 2008 – states which the party is now desperately struggling to defend.
With less than two weeks to go until the November 4 polling day, we track the travails of the man who once walked on political water.
You know you’re in trouble when your friends stop listening…
Mr. Obama belatedly hit the campaign trail this week, but the depths of his unpopularity soon became clear as supporters walked out early in one rally in the state of Maryland.
As Mr. Obama urged a mostly African-American audience to get out and vote, the Reuters news agency reported that “a steady stream of people walked out of the auditorium” as the president was speaking. He was then heckled over the lack of progress on immigration reform.
And even your own candidates won’t admit to knowing you…
Out in middle America, where wages are still flat and Mr Obama is accused of failing to deliver as much ‘hope and change’ as he famously promised, Democrat candidates have been actively disassociating themselves from their party’s leader.
“I’m not Barack Obama,” said Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Democrat candidate in Kentucky in a recent television advert which went on to spell out her disagreements with Mr Obama on guns, coal and environmental regulations.
Indeed, so toxic has Mr. Obama’s name apparently become that when Ms. Lundergan Grimes was asked if she had ever actually voted for Mr. Obama, the 35-year-old lawyer declined to answer.
Unfortunately Democrats need Mr. Obama at the top of his game…
Even if Mr. Obama was riding high in the polls, this would be a tough year for Democrats according to Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Only one-third of the Senate's 100 members are up for election this year, and the key races just happen to fall in states like Alaska, Kentucky, North Carolina and Louisiana that tend to favour Republicans.
“It’s both the ‘map and the math’ of the president’s low approval that is hurting Democrats,” says Prof Sabato, before adding that an in-form Obama could still have made the difference.
“Republicans are winning at the moment, but if Obama’s numbers were sky-high – which they are not - then I think Democrats would hold the Senate.”
But events, dear boy, events…
If it’s not one thing, then it’s the other. Not so long ago, the pundits predicted that the backlash from Obama’s healthcare reforms would be enough to sink Democrats in November, but then the embattled Obamacare websites finally ran smoothly and the threat started to recede.
But just as things were looking up, along came the Islamic State militants to throw Mr Obama’s foreign policy into reverse-gear, dragging a president who had prided himself on disengaging from Middle Eastern wars back into war in the Middle East.
Mr Obama took serious incoming fire for those wobbly days with “no strategy”, but then looked to have fought off that criticism by pulling together an international coalition and ordering some decisive-looking air-strikes on Syria…
…Only to be struck down by Ebola.
It’s not Mr Obama’s fault necessarily, but the bungled handling of the Ebola crisis by the US government agency, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), has been the last straw.
How did two US nurses get Ebola after all the reassurances that the disease – properly handled – wasn’t that contagious? And how were infected nurses and hospital technicians allowed to board flights and take holiday cruises?
Mr Obama was forced to cancel a campaign trip to New Jersey to summon an emergency cabinet meeting, but the damage was already done, and the Obama administration’s unfortunate reputation for administrative incompetence was further assured.
Which is not to say that Mr Obama has been entirely useless...
Democrats may run a mile from Mr Obama in the heartlands, but on the liberal coasts his residual celebrity still brings in the fundraising dollars.
By one estimate the president has conducted 45 fundraisers this year – that’s about one a week – visiting hotels, country clubs and the mansions of celebrities and the super-rich to relieve them of their cash.
The president’s sheen may have faded for the ordinary Joe, but in Hollywood he still sets some hearts a-fluttering. “You’re so handsome that I can’t speak properly,” gushed Gwyneth Paltrow as she introduced Mr Obama to guests at her home in Los Angeles.
…but the grassroots have increasingly lost faith.
Pollsters have noted that Mr Obama’s popularity has declined even with those key demographics like women and minorities that twice propelled him to the White House.
A poll last month found that women now disapprove of the president by a 50pc to 44pc margin, a near reversal of Mr Obama’s 55-44pc advantage among women in the 2012 race, according to the Washington Post/ABC News survey.
It's gotten to the point where other Democrat politicians are pretending they don't know Barack Obama and want nothing to do with him.
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From patron saint to pariah how Barack Obama became toxic for Democrats - Telegraph
From patron saint to pariah: how Barack Obama became toxic for Democrats
With midterm elections only two weeks away, Democrat candidates are doing something they never would have dreamed of in 2008: distancing themselves from President Barack Obama
President Obama's low approval ratings may cost Democrats in the mid-terms Photo: CAROLYN CASTER/AP
By Peter Foster, Washington
8:00AM BST 21 Oct 2014
Six years after Barack Obama helped Democrats to a slew of surprising electoral victories in Republican states, pollsters and pundits alike agree that the once-charismatic US president has become an electoral liability in November’s mid-term elections.
It has been a stunning reversal of fortunes for Mr Obama, whose celebrity status helped get Democrats elected in several Republican states in 2008 – states which the party is now desperately struggling to defend.
With less than two weeks to go until the November 4 polling day, we track the travails of the man who once walked on political water.
You know you’re in trouble when your friends stop listening…
Mr. Obama belatedly hit the campaign trail this week, but the depths of his unpopularity soon became clear as supporters walked out early in one rally in the state of Maryland.
As Mr. Obama urged a mostly African-American audience to get out and vote, the Reuters news agency reported that “a steady stream of people walked out of the auditorium” as the president was speaking. He was then heckled over the lack of progress on immigration reform.
And even your own candidates won’t admit to knowing you…
Out in middle America, where wages are still flat and Mr Obama is accused of failing to deliver as much ‘hope and change’ as he famously promised, Democrat candidates have been actively disassociating themselves from their party’s leader.
“I’m not Barack Obama,” said Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Democrat candidate in Kentucky in a recent television advert which went on to spell out her disagreements with Mr Obama on guns, coal and environmental regulations.
Indeed, so toxic has Mr. Obama’s name apparently become that when Ms. Lundergan Grimes was asked if she had ever actually voted for Mr. Obama, the 35-year-old lawyer declined to answer.
Unfortunately Democrats need Mr. Obama at the top of his game…
Even if Mr. Obama was riding high in the polls, this would be a tough year for Democrats according to Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Only one-third of the Senate's 100 members are up for election this year, and the key races just happen to fall in states like Alaska, Kentucky, North Carolina and Louisiana that tend to favour Republicans.
“It’s both the ‘map and the math’ of the president’s low approval that is hurting Democrats,” says Prof Sabato, before adding that an in-form Obama could still have made the difference.
“Republicans are winning at the moment, but if Obama’s numbers were sky-high – which they are not - then I think Democrats would hold the Senate.”
But events, dear boy, events…
If it’s not one thing, then it’s the other. Not so long ago, the pundits predicted that the backlash from Obama’s healthcare reforms would be enough to sink Democrats in November, but then the embattled Obamacare websites finally ran smoothly and the threat started to recede.
But just as things were looking up, along came the Islamic State militants to throw Mr Obama’s foreign policy into reverse-gear, dragging a president who had prided himself on disengaging from Middle Eastern wars back into war in the Middle East.
Mr Obama took serious incoming fire for those wobbly days with “no strategy”, but then looked to have fought off that criticism by pulling together an international coalition and ordering some decisive-looking air-strikes on Syria…
…Only to be struck down by Ebola.
It’s not Mr Obama’s fault necessarily, but the bungled handling of the Ebola crisis by the US government agency, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), has been the last straw.
How did two US nurses get Ebola after all the reassurances that the disease – properly handled – wasn’t that contagious? And how were infected nurses and hospital technicians allowed to board flights and take holiday cruises?
Mr Obama was forced to cancel a campaign trip to New Jersey to summon an emergency cabinet meeting, but the damage was already done, and the Obama administration’s unfortunate reputation for administrative incompetence was further assured.
Which is not to say that Mr Obama has been entirely useless...
Democrats may run a mile from Mr Obama in the heartlands, but on the liberal coasts his residual celebrity still brings in the fundraising dollars.
By one estimate the president has conducted 45 fundraisers this year – that’s about one a week – visiting hotels, country clubs and the mansions of celebrities and the super-rich to relieve them of their cash.
The president’s sheen may have faded for the ordinary Joe, but in Hollywood he still sets some hearts a-fluttering. “You’re so handsome that I can’t speak properly,” gushed Gwyneth Paltrow as she introduced Mr Obama to guests at her home in Los Angeles.
…but the grassroots have increasingly lost faith.
Pollsters have noted that Mr Obama’s popularity has declined even with those key demographics like women and minorities that twice propelled him to the White House.
A poll last month found that women now disapprove of the president by a 50pc to 44pc margin, a near reversal of Mr Obama’s 55-44pc advantage among women in the 2012 race, according to the Washington Post/ABC News survey.
