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OBAMA'S 2012 GAME PLAN: How can the president rev up and mobilize his demoralized liberal base?
Newsweek ^ | June 26, 2011 | Michael Tomasky

Posted on 07/03/2011 10:31:02 PM PDT by no dems

It was a rare confessional moment for Barack Obama. At a Miami fundraiser in mid-June, the president acknowledged that it’s “not as cool” as it was in 2008 to support him. It isn’t just a matter of fewer hip posters and viral videos. It’s a matter of votes. Rekindling the enthusiasm of African-Americans, educated white liberals, Latinos, young people, and union members—the Democratic Party’s most loyal and progressive members—will be a huge challenge. After all, you can only elect the first African-American president once, and the past two and a half years have deeply disappointed many liberals. “I know a lot of the kids who worked hard in 2008,” says Hodding Carter III, adviser to the last one-term Democratic president (Jimmy Carter) and now a professor at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. “They walk around like cattle who’ve been hit with stun guns between their eyes. This isn’t how it was supposed to be.”

Aabout the strongest argument Obama can make to base voters: it could, and will, be a lot worse if you don’t vote for me. That’s true, and fear is usually a pretty good motivator in politics. But it still isn’t what people were hoping for, and it seems inevitable that some percentage of the most loyal Democrats will stay home.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; gameplan; michaeltomasky; newspeak; newsweak; newsweek
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To: MplsSteve

One thing I read, to me puts his re-election prospects in perspective. Try to imagine or describe that voter who thinks, “I didn’t vote for Obama in 2008, but now that I’ve seen him in action, he’s sure got my vote this time, around”. It’s hard to picture anyone saying this. If it’s true his population of new voters is small, then he will need all of his first time voters to vote for him again. Doesn’t seem likely.


41 posted on 07/04/2011 5:10:32 AM PDT by JohnEBoy
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To: unkus

I believe that Obama will still get 95% of the black voters who turn out, but getting them to turn out in the numbers they did last time might be tough.


42 posted on 07/04/2011 5:11:47 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: no dems

What’s the problem?

They’re all unemployed with nothing better to do.


43 posted on 07/04/2011 5:31:38 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Loud Mime

I stop in at Yahoo Answers once a week or so to attack and demoralize the liberals. In fact, conservatives have taken over some categories there. I’m surprised, though, that the leftists at Yahoo are allowing the attacks against the liberal sheep to continue.

The liberal blue funk at Yahoo is thick as syrup.


44 posted on 07/04/2011 6:13:47 AM PDT by sergeantdave (The democrat party is a seditious organization that must be outlawed)
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To: Loud Mime
For Obama to win again, the Democrats will have to sink to the lowest levels in politics; lower than we have ever seen in the U.S.
And, they are not above doing that. I just wish the GOP was as "street smart" as the DemocRATS.
45 posted on 07/04/2011 6:14:43 AM PDT by no dems (When I learn that a person, regardless of who they are, is a Democrat, I lose respect for them.)
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To: Venturer; All
There was a very articulate Black lady being interviewed by Sean Hannity this past week. I tuned in late and did not find out who she was. But she said the following: The Blacks who vote, will vote for Obama in large numbers. But, the number who turn out to vote in 2012 will not be nearly as large as the number who turned out to vote in 2008.
I've been saying the same thing for months. The new has worn off; they've had their Black President..... game over.
46 posted on 07/04/2011 6:20:31 AM PDT by no dems (When I learn that a person, regardless of who they are, is a Democrat, I lose respect for them.)
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To: sergeantdave
I stop in at Yahoo Answers once a week or so to attack and demoralize the liberals.
Can you give me a direct link to Yahoo Answers or tell me if there is a special section for political discourse? I went to www.yahooanswers.com and found questions like "Can you tell me the proper way to insert a Tampon?". For real Sarge. Help me out here.
47 posted on 07/04/2011 6:26:29 AM PDT by no dems (When I learn that a person, regardless of who they are, is a Democrat, I lose respect for them.)
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To: no dems

Marco Rubio...

Agreed!


48 posted on 07/04/2011 6:36:21 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Pick up your weapon and follow me.)
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To: CPT Clay

But, some folks on here say that Marco Rubio, and Bobby Jindal as well, are not eligible to be Prez or VP b/c their parents were not citizens when the two of them were born in Miami and Baton Rouge respectively.


49 posted on 07/04/2011 7:17:30 AM PDT by no dems (When I learn that a person, regardless of who they are, is a Democrat, I lose respect for them.)
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To: Erik Latranyi
As much as I would like to see Obama eviscerated in public, it is not necessary to win....therefore, it will not be done.

This campaign can be won by completely ignoring Obama himself and just talking about spending too much with no results, intruding too much with no authority and by not leading enough on the national and world stage.

Eric, I admire the fact that you'd like to see the next election conducted in such a gentlemanly and sportsmanlike manner, but I'm sorry, such an election has never been seen in this country. Our candidate will most certainly take everything wrong with this country, and make the incumbent own it - lock, stock, and barrel. That's presidential politics 101.

Secondly, the first shot probably won't even be fired by our nominee. Obama's people will begin lobbing grenades at our candidate well in advance of his own offensive, which you know will come ("you can put lipstick on a pig..."). That fire will need to be returned.

I'm afraid that you can't make issues the enemy in an election. The people can't vote against an issue, but they can vote against those who are most responsible for that issue being a threat to their life, liberty, or happiness.

If you don't put the onus for the nation's troubles squarely on the incumbent president, then what reason are you giving the people to fire him? And if you're unwilling to label him as destructive cause, how are you going to label yourself as constructive cause? Why should they hire you?

Like it or not, elections most certainly are about individuals, and groups of individuals, and how they are related the issues of our day. In the present case, the incumbent president and his party are directly responsible for a whole host of issues that are destructive of the people's life, liberty, and happiness. This must be made clear by our side, and by our candidate, when the time comes.

50 posted on 07/04/2011 9:29:58 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: no dems

Here’s the politics category:

http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/index;_ylt=A0S00_gK6hFO2x8AMznj1KIX;_ylv=3?sid=396545444

It’s further divided into sub-categories. You do need to register, though, in order to comment.


51 posted on 07/04/2011 9:46:27 AM PDT by sergeantdave (The democrat party is a seditious organization that must be outlawed)
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To: Cobra64

That is the point. He is Americas dumbest President. . It is Obummer saying this line. Yes, I know it is Obama. Don’t bang me on spelling too.


52 posted on 07/04/2011 9:49:55 AM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: no dems

“Aabout the strongest argument Obama can make to base voters: it could, and will, be a lot worse if you don’t vote for me. That’s true”

Yeah, that’s the objectivity I expect from Newsweek. I appreciate that they admit he has a weak argument. But to go on to say it’s true that any Republican would be a lot worse just flushes any appearance of fairness.


53 posted on 07/04/2011 10:58:44 PM PDT by COgamer
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