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Obama Reflects on 2016: I Wasn’t Able to ‘Transfer My Personal Popularity’ to Democrats
mediaite.com ^ | 1/14/17 | Josh Feldman

Posted on 01/14/2017 6:03:29 PM PST by ColdOne

During last night’s NBC Dateline special on President Obama‘s legacy, the outgoing Commander-in-Chief reflected on 2016 and the “surprise” he felt at Donald Trump‘s win.

He told Lester Holt that he thinks he and his team are pretty good at seeing things coming––but not Trump’s victory. Part of that, Obama said, is due to the fact that the polling was so off.

He admitted there was a lot of disappointment at Hillary Clinton‘s loss, as well as the broader loss for the Democratic party.

Obama conceded, “I had trouble transferring my personal popularity or support to the broader cause of the Democratic party.”

He said it was difficult for him to both run the country and rebuild the “grassroots party apparatus” his part

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016issues; bhojobapproval; mememe; obamalegacy
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To: ColdOne
He often did well in popularity polls

BUT

people didn't like his policies and they didn't like the direction the county was heading.

21 posted on 01/14/2017 6:17:19 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill: TWITTER, FACEBOOK, CNN)
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To: ColdOne

Well Barry, most “democrats” are unpopular, miserable lowlifes by nature and just can’t bull**** the dummies as well as you could.


22 posted on 01/14/2017 6:17:41 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: ColdOne
A huge percentage of Americans simply won't,to this day,openly admit what they think of Obola.The reason is obvious...not wanting to be seen as racists.In November the undeniable fact is that it was Trump vs a third Obola term.And by almost 100 Electoral votes,the privacy of the voting booth very much in play,they chose Trump.

Personal popularity? BS!

23 posted on 01/14/2017 6:19:05 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: ColdOne

How does he get that Enormous Head threw doorways ?


24 posted on 01/14/2017 6:19:39 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Interesting Times

I know, right? LOL
The dem party is almost non existent. If they didn’t have pop culture celebs and the establishment to fight their battles 24/7 in the media other places, they’d really be gone for good.
They’re always being protected and propped up until elections occur, then the real sad state of how they’re doing can’t be hidden.


25 posted on 01/14/2017 6:21:09 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: ColdOne

Self enamored much?


26 posted on 01/14/2017 6:22:11 PM PST by blackdog
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To: ColdOne

Actually, Obama did transfer his “popularity” to democrats everywhere.


27 posted on 01/14/2017 6:22:25 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: BenLurkin

Does Mike have a problem with him?


28 posted on 01/14/2017 6:23:29 PM PST by zek157
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To: ColdOne

His personal popularity is yet another completely fabricated fake-est fake news.


29 posted on 01/14/2017 6:23:35 PM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: ColdOne

Yes, oh Great One, they failed. Not through any fault of yours, but because they were unequal to your magnificence!!!!

What a TOTAL, megalomaniacal sociopath this idiot is. Don’t let the door hit you in the butt Obama!


30 posted on 01/14/2017 6:24:12 PM PST by ZULU (Particular circumstances can never be used to justify an act that is intrinsically evil.)
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To: ColdOne

Yes, oh Great One, they failed. Not through any fault of yours, but because they were unequal to your magnificence!!!!

What a TOTAL, megalomaniacal sociopath this idiot is. Don’t let the door hit you in the butt Obama!


31 posted on 01/14/2017 6:24:14 PM PST by ZULU (Particular circumstances can never be used to justify an act that is intrinsically evil.)
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To: ColdOne

what Obama does not realize is a great deal of those that claim to like Obama only do it because it is politically correct...If a demarcate dares to say that he did not like Obama he like ostracized...


32 posted on 01/14/2017 6:24:21 PM PST by PCPOET7
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To: ColdOne

SUAGOBO


33 posted on 01/14/2017 6:26:44 PM PST by lrdg
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To: ColdOne

He STILL has not figured out that those are fake polls. You campaigned hard for Hillary and you got smoked. Just follow the lead of the Bush’s and go away.


34 posted on 01/14/2017 6:27:13 PM PST by Trumpnado2016 (It's time for America to dream again.)
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To: ColdOne

Just another in a long line of examples of showing how very very well off one would be if you bought someone for what they were worth and then find a sucker to buy them for what they think they are worth.

The libs are so f’d up they fail to realize that when the powers that be saw HRC was floundering, they wheeled out weewillie and when that wasn’t working, BO jumped in and tried to sell the idea that SHE was just going to carry on his plan.

He thought he was winning when in fact it just solidified the anti HRC crowd...

I will even admit that the possibility is very huge that BO probably would had prevailed had he been able to run.

That just shows how far we have ‘fallen’


35 posted on 01/14/2017 6:27:33 PM PST by xrmusn ((6/98)" "If you see a civilian in cammies -- bump into him")
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To: ColdOne

Just another in a long line of examples of showing how very very well off one would be if you bought someone for what they were worth and then find a sucker to buy them for what they think they are worth.

The libs are so f’d up they fail to realize that when the powers that be saw HRC was floundering, they wheeled out weewillie and when that wasn’t working, BO jumped in and tried to sell the idea that SHE was just going to carry on his plan.

He thought he was winning when in fact it just solidified the anti HRC crowd...

I will even admit that the possibility is very huge that BO probably would had prevailed had he been able to run.

That just shows how far we have ‘fallen’


36 posted on 01/14/2017 6:28:29 PM PST by xrmusn ((6/98)" "If you see a civilian in cammies -- bump into him")
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To: ColdOne

“I had trouble transferring my personal popularity or support to the broader cause of the Democratic party.”

In other words, “they suck, I’m great”.


37 posted on 01/14/2017 6:32:35 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ColdOne

Hey Barky....dig your head out of your azz and look around.
You’re about as popular as a turd in the punchbowl at a formal wedding.
You’re nothing but a nasty little fudge stain on Lady Liberty’s old, thrown-out panties.


38 posted on 01/14/2017 6:32:58 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: ColdOne

Hussein’s “popularity” is largely a “’Wilder (Bradley) Effect’” effect.


39 posted on 01/14/2017 6:33:56 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: ColdOne
“I had trouble transferring my personal popularity or support to the broader cause of the Democratic party.”

In his arrogant denial he has precisely put his finger on why the dims are in the $#!tcan.

40 posted on 01/14/2017 6:34:48 PM PST by pfflier
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