In This Election, Obama’s Party Benches Him

[Jackson]

In This Election, Obama’s Party Benches Him

But for now Obama has been reduced to something else: an isolated political figure who is viewed as a liability to Democrats in the very states where voters by the thousands had once stood to cheer him.


As November nears, Mr. Obama and his loyalists are being forced to reconcile that it is not only Democrats in conservative-leaning states, like Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas, who are avoiding him.

Democratic senators in Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia — states that were pivotal to his success and whose demographics reflect his winning coalition of young, minority and female voters — do not want him. Nor does his party’s Senate nominee in Iowa, where Mr. Obama won twice and whose youth-filled 2008 Democratic caucuses vaulted him toward the nomination.

Yet even the slightest injection of the Obama brand into this election seems perilous for Democrats.

Last week, speaking at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., Mr. Obama declared that while he was not up for re-election, his “policies are on the ballot.” Immediately, Republicans pounced, putting the clip in videos to link their rivals to the president. Democrats winced, and David Axelrod, the longtime Obama adviser, acknowledged Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the remark was “a mistake.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/us/politics/in-this-election-obamas-party

Yes, those Democrats running for office are avoiding him and even his advisers are acknowledging he's a loose canon that no one wants to touch. Ouch! I think they call that the "Carter Syndrome." All the rats are scurrying off the sinking ship.

 

[EconChick]

LOL

 

[The Rabbi]

Once the fallout from Obama's disaster against ISIS becomes known, plus some more Ebola outbreaks, he will be about as popular as Michael Vick at an ASPCA benefit.

 

[Jackson]

Once the fallout from Obama's disaster against ISIS becomes known, plus some more Ebola outbreaks, he will be about as popular as Michael Vick at an ASPCA benefit.

LOL!

 

[Pogo]

In This Election, Obama’s Party Benches Him

But for now Obama has been reduced to something else: an isolated political figure who is viewed as a liability to Democrats in the very states where voters by the thousands had once stood to cheer him.


As November nears, Mr. Obama and his loyalists are being forced to reconcile that it is not only Democrats in conservative-leaning states, like Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas, who are avoiding him.

Democratic senators in Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia — states that were pivotal to his success and whose demographics reflect his winning coalition of young, minority and female voters — do not want him. Nor does his party’s Senate nominee in Iowa, where Mr. Obama won twice and whose youth-filled 2008 Democratic caucuses vaulted him toward the nomination.

Yet even the slightest injection of the Obama brand into this election seems perilous for Democrats.

Last week, speaking at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., Mr. Obama declared that while he was not up for re-election, his “policies are on the ballot.” Immediately, Republicans pounced, putting the clip in videos to link their rivals to the president. Democrats winced, and David Axelrod, the longtime Obama adviser, acknowledged Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the remark was “a mistake.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/us/politics/in-this-election-obamas-party

Yes, those Democrats running for office are avoiding him and even his advisers are acknowledging he's a loose canon that no one wants to touch. Ouch! I think they call that the "Carter Syndrome." All the rats are scurrying off the sinking ship.

Actually that's common if you review history. Presidential mid-terms almost always lose ground for the party the President belongs to. It's the way We Da People balance our government and ensure gridlock. There have been only three exceptions to that since the Civil War. POTUS fatigue.

 

[Jackson]

In This Election, Obama’s Party Benches Him

But for now Obama has been reduced to something else: an isolated political figure who is viewed as a liability to Democrats in the very states where voters by the thousands had once stood to cheer him.


As November nears, Mr. Obama and his loyalists are being forced to reconcile that it is not only Democrats in conservative-leaning states, like Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas, who are avoiding him.

Democratic senators in Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia — states that were pivotal to his success and whose demographics reflect his winning coalition of young, minority and female voters — do not want him. Nor does his party’s Senate nominee in Iowa, where Mr. Obama won twice and whose youth-filled 2008 Democratic caucuses vaulted him toward the nomination.

Yet even the slightest injection of the Obama brand into this election seems perilous for Democrats.

Last week, speaking at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., Mr. Obama declared that while he was not up for re-election, his “policies are on the ballot.” Immediately, Republicans pounced, putting the clip in videos to link their rivals to the president. Democrats winced, and David Axelrod, the longtime Obama adviser, acknowledged Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the remark was “a mistake.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/us/politics/in-this-election-obamas-party

Yes, those Democrats running for office are avoiding him and even his advisers are acknowledging he's a loose canon that no one wants to touch. Ouch! I think they call that the "Carter Syndrome." All the rats are scurrying off the sinking ship.

Actually that's common if you review history. Presidential mid-terms almost always lose ground for the party the President belongs to. It's the way We Da People balance our government and ensure gridlock. There have been only three exceptions to that since the Civil War. POTUS fatigue.

Do tell. So, it's normal for the president to go down to the thirties on the polls, be the laughing stock around the globe, and considered the black plague to friendly comrades seeking offices in the same party. I didn't know that...POTUS fatigue. huh!

 

[saveliberty]

Pretty common midterm lame duck situation. That said, Obama should have known.

 

[Jackson]

Pretty common midterm lame duck situation. That said, Obama should have known.

This is worse than lame duck. He has sent 3000 troops to West Africa for Christs sake to come into harms way with Ebola!
He created the situation with ISIS. And now he's licking his wounds because no one wants him to give speeches or fund raise for them. This guy is not living in reality.

 

[saveliberty]

Pretty common midterm lame duck situation. That said, Obama should have known.

This is worse than lame duck. He has sent 3000 troops to West Africa for Christs sake to come into harms way with Ebola!
He created the situation with ISIS. And now he's licking his wounds because no one wants him to give speeches or fund raise for them. This guy is not living in reality.

Of course he's not living in reality. He lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and was already in love with himself when he showed up.