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Showing Original Post only (View all)"Why won’t Obama voters `break up’ with him?" by Greg Sargent at WP [View all]
Why wont Obama voters `break up with him?by Greg Sargent at WP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/why-wont-obama-voters-break-up-with-him/2012/09/06/e4831e06-f84c-11e1-8398-0327ab83ab91_blog.html
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Americans for Prosperity is also running an ad featuring former Obama supporters saying (again more in sorrow than in anger) that they feel duped by Obamas promise of hope and change.
But the thinking underlying these ads may neglect another possibility: What if the Obama supporters the Romney camp is trying to woo (but apparently has yet to win in the numbers he need) are reluctant to part ways with him for substantive reasons?
The two ads cited above do make something of a substantive case against Obama. The first cites the debt and the failure of Obamas council; the second says Obama failed to bring new jobs or reduce spending, with one former supporter saying: he inherited a bad situation, but he made it worse. The basic idea is that many Obama voters have decided he fell disqualifyingly short but need to be told they can feel okay about ending his presidency.
But what if this isnt how they see things? Perhaps these targeted voters are taking a more nuanced view of the economy and the Obama presidency, and are in the process of choosing between Obamas ideas, priorities, values and vision and those of Romney. In his speech, Bill Clinton may have articulated another strain of their perceptions and thinking when he said: No president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just four years. He has laid the foundation for a new, modern, successful economy of shared prosperity. And if you will renew the presidents contract, you will feel it. You will feel it.
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"Why won’t Obama voters `break up’ with him?" by Greg Sargent at WP [View all]
applegrove
Sep 2012
OP
I wonder how many people actually speculate in any detail about exactly how things get done.
patrice
Sep 2012
#3
Thank you for teaching civics. Presidents have limited powers and the House controls the purse.
JRLeft
Sep 2012
#5
This puts everyone in a difficult situation when we try to do as we really should and talk to
patrice
Sep 2012
#8
Yep. Some of those who scream loudest about "Freedom" are actually absolutists and/or ideologues.
patrice
Sep 2012
#40
Fits to the juvenile middle school or elementary school level of the right. Immature bullies.
freshwest
Sep 2012
#29
Who in their right mind leaves an intelligent caring man for a robotic unfeeling jerk?
Jennicut
Sep 2012
#13
Those "conversions" are fake, IMHO. I talk to Dems daily, and never once have I heard one.....
Tarheel_Dem
Sep 2012
#18
Thing is, you're always going to find 'conversions' every election cycle...
Drunken Irishman
Sep 2012
#20
The national debt never makes it into any conversations I have with people
Proud Liberal Dem
Sep 2012
#25
I'm sure it may come up in some circles, but I've never heard anyone in my family, or....
Tarheel_Dem
Sep 2012
#33
It is very simple. The republicans have said they want to dismantle social security and medicare.
still_one
Sep 2012
#32
Because people don't have those sort of relationships with their politicians?
Proud Liberal Dem
Sep 2012
#36