Stinging column in U.S. News regarding the political poison that could now be the Obama endorsement.
With strong recent losses in Virginia and New Jersey being followed by a potentially disastrous loss in ultra-liberal Massachusetts, the Obama agenda appears poised to initiate a series of electoral disasters on the Democrat Party...
___
Brown vs. Coakley Shows Obama Has Become a Political Albatross
Seeing President Barack Obama reverse course and make a last minute/last ditch effort to save the Coakley campaign brings back memories of November, when Obama put his prestige and political capital on the line in an unsuccessful attempt to save the gubernatorial campaigns of New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine and Virginias Creigh Deeds.
Those two elections were a stinging rebuke of the Obama Agenda higher taxes, government control of health care and out of control spending. Since November, Obamas poll numbers have only fallen. Coupled with the perfect storm that is Martha Coakleys candidacy a bad candidate running a bad campaign in a bad year for Democrats and it may be shocking, but not altogether surprising that Scott Brown is in a position to win.
...Coakleys missteps, astonishing though they are, are really a sideshow to the larger issue of the effect Obamas declining poll numbers have on Democratic candidates. When in a short three-month period Republicans win in New Jersey and are in a position to win in Massachusetts that translates into an environment absolutely poisonous for Democrats
...For Democrats locked in tough election battles including Arkansas Blanche Lincoln, Michael Bennet in Colorado, Maryland freshman Democratic Rep. Frank Kratovil, the race for the open Ohio Senate seat Tuesdays results are essentially both anti-climatic and unimportant. Theyve seen their 2010 electoral environment and it aint pretty.
Brown vs. Coakley Shows Obama Has Become a Political Albatross - Doug Heye (usnews.com)
With strong recent losses in Virginia and New Jersey being followed by a potentially disastrous loss in ultra-liberal Massachusetts, the Obama agenda appears poised to initiate a series of electoral disasters on the Democrat Party...
___
Brown vs. Coakley Shows Obama Has Become a Political Albatross
Seeing President Barack Obama reverse course and make a last minute/last ditch effort to save the Coakley campaign brings back memories of November, when Obama put his prestige and political capital on the line in an unsuccessful attempt to save the gubernatorial campaigns of New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine and Virginias Creigh Deeds.
Those two elections were a stinging rebuke of the Obama Agenda higher taxes, government control of health care and out of control spending. Since November, Obamas poll numbers have only fallen. Coupled with the perfect storm that is Martha Coakleys candidacy a bad candidate running a bad campaign in a bad year for Democrats and it may be shocking, but not altogether surprising that Scott Brown is in a position to win.
...Coakleys missteps, astonishing though they are, are really a sideshow to the larger issue of the effect Obamas declining poll numbers have on Democratic candidates. When in a short three-month period Republicans win in New Jersey and are in a position to win in Massachusetts that translates into an environment absolutely poisonous for Democrats
...For Democrats locked in tough election battles including Arkansas Blanche Lincoln, Michael Bennet in Colorado, Maryland freshman Democratic Rep. Frank Kratovil, the race for the open Ohio Senate seat Tuesdays results are essentially both anti-climatic and unimportant. Theyve seen their 2010 electoral environment and it aint pretty.
Brown vs. Coakley Shows Obama Has Become a Political Albatross - Doug Heye (usnews.com)
