Bad news: Obama campaign starting to think they might lose

Hot Air ^ | MAY 25, 2012 | ALLAHPUNDIT

[RobinMasters]

It’s amazing what a few competitive polls can do to concentrate the mind.

Democrats had taken comfort for months in the Republican Party’s seeming inability to get behind Mitt Romney, Obama’s healthy lead in the polls, and equally healthy job growth. And for a few, fleeting, moments, Democrats thought the election might just be easy. But Republican division appears to have been merely an artifact of primary politics, and Mitt Romney has proved a consistent, if unglamorous campaigner…

“There was this sense maybe a month or two ago that Obama was really riding high — that he had gotten his base behind him and the economy was doing better and it had this Clinton vs. Bob Dole 1996 feeling — that he was going to cruise,” said one 2008 Obama aide who does not work for this year’s campaign. “And now it feels like it’s going to be really tough — a 2004 race.”

Indeed the campaign is shaping up to be a close-combat battle for one percent of swing voters in a few hundred precincts across three or four states…

Moreover, a campaign that two months ago seemed infallible has proven to be very capable of making mistakes. Obama’s aides were taken aback when Vice President Joe Biden publicly backed same sex marriage — and spent a week punishing him for speaking out in the press. Long preparation for attacks on Romney’s time at Bain Capital, aimed at changing the narrative, nevertheless left them flat-footed when Republicans (and even a few Democrats) counter-attacked. Romney, who stumbled into the Republican nomination, scored his first tactical victory of the general election and further shored up the Republican base in the process.

[Jet Jaguar]

Obama will win CA, IL, and HI. All others, are up for grabs.

[unkus]

Obama will win CA, IL, and HI. All others, are up for grabs.

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I agree.

It’s very scary to even think he might be re-elected.

[manc]

no doubt the DOJ has boxes of millions of votes waiting to be sent in.
Economy is dire but the best one is when these talking heads for the homo agenda keep saying that most in this country want their sham marriage and yet state after state votes for normal marriage.
Even today yet again Megyn Kelly for the second week has been pushing this twisted crap and had her talking heads on saying how this is civil rights, marriage equality bla bla but not one person has asked if this is marriage equality and all about love then polygamy should be law too if the left wants to run on social issues and it seems they do as other issues are awful then let them because we will win much easier regardless of how many dead people and fraud goes ahead

[PapaNew]

Obama will win CA

Please, remind me why I want to move back to California.

[who knows what evil?]

You like it warm, Megyn? You’re headed in the right direction...

[Vince Ferrer]

Right about here is where the wheels came off. This stunt may have worked fifteen years ago when the mainstream media still controlled the narrative, but the left was surprised how quickly the narrative was picked apart by the internet. So far Fluke was the high water mark of his campaign.

[max americana]

what’s the bad news again?

[muawiyah]

Fluke’s a dude. The internet helped get that story around. Even the Dem high command have dropped him/her

[GizzyGirl]

what’s the bad news again?

Perfect post!!!

[gitmo]

what’s the bad news again?

The dems are no longer overconfident.

[Mears]

MA also——I live there.

[Private_Sector_Does_It_Better]

Yup! I hope the polls stay close until early October.

[Freeper]

Wrong Title

Should Be

"Good News _ Obama Campaign Has Finally Figured Out He Is not Going To Run Again

[houeto]

Please, remind me why I want to move back to California.

Please, tell me this is a joke.

[null and void]

Please, remind me why I want to move back to California.

Cuz I'm here?

[houeto]

The dems are no longer overconfident.

Exactly.

[Mr. Wright]

You forgot Massachusetts, The District of Columbia, States of Washington and Oregon.

[C210N]

Yes, the ‘rats being scared is bad news. If they are confident or over-confident, they’ll ride into defeat. Otherwise, they’ll lie, cheat, steal - ends justify the means - if they convince themselves of possible defeat.

[NorseWood]

The States of Washington and Oregon are not a given for Obama. There is a chance Washington could go to Romney. Oregon too.

[Revolting cat!]

It may in the end come down to the efforts of the Mormon missionaries. The more Americans they manage to convert, the more votes can be guaranteed to go for the Bishop. Let us help them folks!

[Standing Wolf]

Unless you already know what the October surprise consists of, I wouldn’t start popping champagne corks just yet.

[kalee]

Bad news? I think it is Great News! However I sincerely doubt Obama thinks he will lose.

[Windflier]

Obama’s healthy lead in the polls, and equally healthy job growth.

What the hell.....?

[fidelis]

Actually, your picture looks more like Jehovah’s Witlesses. Mormons are the two clean-cut guys in white shirts/ties and on bikes.

[Revolting cat!]

Oops, you're right, my bad. Here, correction.

[MikeSteelBe]

“Bad news?”

The bad news is that the Going On Progressive party gives us assclowns like McCain and flaming liberals like Romney instead of true conservatives to run against the ‘Rats.

[printhead]

I can’t drink that pretty. And I’ve been drinkin’.

[caww]

Well the ol’ October Surprise isn’t here yet so we shall see. But if this keeps up all Romney has to do is watch Obama loose.

[caww]

Well the ol’ October Surprise isn’t here yet so we shall see. But if this keeps up all Romney has to do is watch Obama loose.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Didn't Brown sign a bill giving California's electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote? Wouldn't that put us potentially in play?

[The Duke]

It’s very scary to even think he might be re-elected.

I'm starting to think that the best outcome might be for Obama to win, but for Republicans to gain control of the House and Senate (if that outcome is possible).

That outcome would let Obama be a defanged figurehead for four years and the socialists take full blame for the economy. It could also lead to his impeachment and removal from office.

That might be better than Republicans taking control of this disaster he has brought about, and then getting tarred when it's more than anybody can handle.

[TexasNative2000]

Can't imagine why they're worried.....

The campaign insults stay-at-home moms by saying they don't work.
The campaign attaches itself to government-sponsored promiscuity with Sandra Fluke.
The campaign chooses gays over traditional-value, churchgoing blacks.
The campaign attacks Catholic institutions via its Obamacare legislation.

Peel 10% off of each voter group and Obama loses NC, FL, VA, CO, WI and maybe MI.

Worry? Why worry?

[norton]

"Obama campaign starting to think they might lose(.)"

Just remember that an animal is most dangerous when cornered.

[Tennessean4Bush]

It’s very scary to even think he might be re-elected.

Romney will win and it will not be remotely close.

[stillfree?]

The weather, the Sierra Nevadas, the ocean.

[reformed_dem]

Didn't Brown sign a bill giving California's electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote?

Until they see how the exit polls are looking, then they'll call an emergency session to pass new legislation returning it to the way it was.

[ThunderSleeps]

Democrats had taken comfort for months in ... and equally healthy job growth.

WTF? What "job growth?" As far as I can see the economy is still shedding jobs. The unemployment rate (percentage) is being artificially manipulated down by subtracting workers from the workforce.

[EDINVA]

“Romney, who stumbled into the Republican nomination,...”

The heck, you say. He didn’t stumble into it; he won it with discipline and staying on message. He wasn’t my choice, and I’m still not happy about it, but he ran a tight and well-executed primary campaign. There was no ‘stumbling’ about it.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Or it will give the California supreme court a shot at reinstating Obozo

[unkus]

That’s crossed my mind, too.

But we can’t have that evil bastard in our White House for another four years.

[unkus]

I like your thinking.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks RobinMasters.

[onyx]

We can do this! Make it happen!

LESS THAN $7k to GO!

GIT-R-DONE

[srmorton]

I live in NC and I have said ever since the beginning of his term that Obama never had a snowball's chance in h**l of winning NC again. In 2008, even with his flawless campaign and the largest Black turn out in NC history, his margin of victory was only 0.3%.

[Ann Archy]

Here's how you'll know if he thinks he's in trouble......Michelle and the girls' VACATIONS!!!! If they don't go on their USUAL EXOTIC, EXPENSIVE trips, the you'll KNOW he's in trouble with the polls!!!

OTOH, if the polls REALLY stink and he thinks they are going down anyone, they could all go on the most EXPENSIVE trip ever!

If they are at County Fairs, they think they have a shot.

Just watch the vacations.

[Ann Archy]

Here's how you'll know if he thinks he's in trouble......Michelle and the girls' VACATIONS!!!! If they don't go on their USUAL EXOTIC, EXPENSIVE trips, the you'll KNOW he's in trouble with the polls!!!

OTOH, if the polls REALLY stink and he thinks they are going down anyone, they could all go on the most EXPENSIVE trip ever!

If they are at County Fairs, they think they have a shot.

Just watch the vacations.

[Ann Archy]

Megyn Kelly is a HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT! What a LIBERAL she’s turned out to be.

[varmintman]

The question(s) I'd have asked if I'd been at that hearing:

Ms. Fluke, were you aware that ordinary birth control pills were a ten dollar item at WalMart these days? Also, were you aware that doing it with fifty or a hundred guys doesn't require fifty or a hundred times the number of pills........

[politicianslie]

that doing it with fifty or a hundred guys doesn't require fifty or a hundred times the number of pills........

Obama and his leftist band of traitors are going to screw her many more times than the screwing she's getting by being a slut. She, like many Americans, won't get it until it's too late. Our FIRST Muslim President is counting on outright stupidity, in her case, Obama will not be disappointed.