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To: unkus

“He’s an evil demon who hates America and all she stands for.”

Agree, and the GOP better find a winning candidate fast. Obama is on the ropes now, but don’t count him out.

Cracks appear in Obama’s Chicago base

By: Steven R. Strahler and Paul Merrion September 26, 2011

Sep 25, 2011

“There’s a lot of people who are pretty depressed; there are some who are aggressively negative about Obama himself,” art dealer Paul Gray says.

President Barack Obama’s Chicago-based re-election campaign has a hometown problem: the donors and volunteers who have lost interest after launching his run for the White House four years ago.

The glow of the epochal election of the nation’s first African-American president has faded amid a dramatic fall in the president’s popularity, a persistently lousy economy and an administration that has been less transformative than promised.

And among Jewish contributors, a bulwark of his local donor base, some have been turned off by Mr. Obama’s call for Israel to give up part of its territory.

Other key supporters, while remaining loyal, are dispirited by the turn of events.

“Oh, it’s going to be much tougher this time,” says Chicago art dealer Paul Gray, who rounded up as much as $800,000 for the first Obama presidential campaign. “There’s a lot of people who are pretty depressed; there are some who are aggressively negative about Obama himself.”

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20110924/ISSUE01/309249981?template=printart


7 posted on 09/25/2011 2:50:31 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

.....and the GOP better find a winning candidate fast. Obama is on the ropes now, but don’t count him out.


He wins again, it’s all over.


32 posted on 09/25/2011 4:01:32 PM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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