Posted on 10/10/2012 9:06:53 AM PDT by Signalman
First came the nausea. Then came the anxiety.
After months of watching Mitt Romney twist in the media glare, a growing number of President Barack Obama’s supporters — though confined for now to a noisy minority of liberals — are peering into the Obama-might-actually-lose abyss for the first time after last week’s disastrous first debate.
Some progressives seem to be going into primal panic mode — to the profound annoyance of the Democratic professional political class and an Obama campaign predicting a rebound at next Tuesday’s debate in Long Island.
“That’s my party: Irrational overconfidence followed by irrational despair,” quipped veteran Democratic political consultant Jim Jordan, summing up the view of Obama’s campaign and a half-dozen top Democratic aides interviewed for this story.
But a lot of Democrats are somewhere in between — they simply can’t believe Obama could be that bad again. Or could he?
“My honest and truthful answer is Democrats are not panicked — and I’m not exactly sure why,” said longtime Clinton adviser James Carville, who thinks Obama will still win. “Maybe I’m being silly here, but I’ve talked to a lot of people today and everybody’s saying the same thing. … Should I be more concerned than I am?
“We’re all trying to talk ourselves into a state of panic, and we’re not quite there yet.”
The quick shift in the poll numbers in the week after the debate illustrates the volatility of the race in general — and the dangers of assuming that the outcome hinges on a tiny number of undecided moderates in swing states who will use the debates as a guide. Romney’s surge, especially among previously Obama-friendly subgroups, suggests a much more fluid electorate — a dangerous dynamic for an Obama campaign that has trumpeted the “stability” of the race in the battleground states.
Insiders see Obama’s flop as turbulence, unsettling but hardly fatal, and say their internal polling shows erosion but not anything approaching collapse.
A handful of liberal pundits — amplifying the visceral reactions of the party’s liberal base to the debate and Obama’s subsequent dip in the polls — think the plane is plunging into a cliff. They have found their muse in Daily Beast columnist Andrew Sullivan, whom Obama reads regularly and was once invited to a White House state dinner.
“Did Obama just throw away the election?” Sullivan wrote in a widely read column posted Monday night, which drew 21,000 Facebook likes within a few hours.
Sullivan, a political iconoclast who supports the president, became agitated after the release of a Pew poll Monday showing Romney vaulting 4 points ahead of Obama — a 12-point swing among likely voters since last month.
Yes.
“Nothing would make me happier than every liberal in the nation in tears on election night.”
It took SIX WEEKS to see those tears 12 years ago after Election Night.
Can we believe Hussein will CONCEDE?
Algore and the leftist freaks never DID.
Maybe Carville is counting heavily on the fraudulent votes. He was always an expert in deceit.
I think Carville knows, he just won’t say it out loud.
I look at all this as a setup for post-debate #2 or #3 coverage—which will talk about what a GREAT comeback Obamugabe created.
The Obamugabe-worshipping media has spent months trying to demoralize us...and, just like the gulag operators of the Soviet Union, they’ve now given anyone who wants to be their “prisoner” (defined as anyone who believes their crap) a *glimpse* of freedom.
Think how demoralized people will be who are BUYING INTO the mainstream media line right now, when the mainstream media suddenly announces “OBAMA WON THE DEBATE! HE IS BACK ON TOP!”
Obama’s massive unpopularity has been rampant since before the election of 2010, and he hasn’t become more popular. He is the worst, and even some reasonable Democrat voters (not the kooks or his base of course) are beginning to see Obamugabe is a danger to prosperity.
I hope for a Romney landslide, but I know this: the Chicago machine is a Fraud Machine extraordinaire. We all ought to pray, work, and give. And then pray.
why I’d Boob Beckel intellectually dishonest? Can’t FNC find a single liberal who can be honest about what’s happening? Is that too much to ask? I’m so tired of having to listen to meaningless spin that even the person spinning doesn’t believe.
Come on FNC, you can do better!
I’ll be happy to watch all of them jump out of their basement windows on election night. :)
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