http://blogs.wsj.com/peggynoonan/2012/1 ... y-morning/
A few weeks ago I saw the president and the governor at the Al Smith dinner, and both were beautiful specimens in their white ties and tails, and both worked the dais. But sitting there listening to the jokes and speeches, the archbishop of New York sitting between them, Obama looked like a young challenger—flinty, not so comfortable. He was distracted, and his smiles seemed forced. He looked like a man who’d just seen some bad internal polling. Romney? Expansive, hilarious, self-spoofing, with a few jokes of finely calibrated meanness that were just perfect for the crowd. He looked like a president. He looked like someone who’d just seen good internals.
Of all people, Obama would know if he is in trouble. When it comes to national presidential races, he is a finely tuned political instrument: He read the field perfectly in 2008. He would know if he’s losing now, and it would explain his joylessness on the stump. He is out there doing what he has to to fight the fight. But he’s still trying to fire up the base when he ought to be wooing the center and speaking their calm centrist talk. His crowds haven’t been big. His people have struggled to fill various venues. This must hurt the president after the trememdous, stupendous crowds of ’08. “Voting’s the best revenge”—revenge against who, and for what? This is not a man who feels himself on the verge of a grand victory. His campaign doesn’t seem president-sized. It is small and sad and lost, driven by formidable will and zero joy.
I suspect both Romney and Obama have a sense of what’s coming, and it’s part of why Romney looks so peaceful and Obama so roiled...
Cool, calm and collected...
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Cool, calm and collected...
Ah...to be confident and on the offense. Best feeling there is.
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"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" - Mao Zedong
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" - Mao Zedong
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haha, reading tea leaves.
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The best tea leaves will be read tonight.
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Exactly
I am actually quite excited, even though I am a German living in britain!
most serious models show a clear Obama lead, but who knows?
I am actually quite excited, even though I am a German living in britain!
most serious models show a clear Obama lead, but who knows?
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if campaign body image is anything.....Obama heads home to vote in Chicago, Biden(early voting in Del) stops into Ohio en route to
meet Obama. Romney and Ryan are still frantically dashing around. You read that however you want, but it tells me one side is seeing it
slip from reach.
meet Obama. Romney and Ryan are still frantically dashing around. You read that however you want, but it tells me one side is seeing it
slip from reach.
"The Party told you to reject all evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
George Orwell---"1984"
George Orwell---"1984"
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Well the optics are, when you have 50,000 less people show up at a rally with Springsteen than you did in 2008, that you go home because whats the point?
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woodchip wrote:Well the optics are, when you have 50,000 less people show up at a rally with Springsteen than you did in 2008, that you go home because whats the point?
desperate candidates fight to the very end, in a close election. Confident candidates go and prepare for the acceptance speech. Like I said, read it however you wish. We might know more later(but, watch out for Ohio to recount for a long time if it ends up within 2%)
"The Party told you to reject all evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
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when will the first news actually start trickling in?
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after polls close...then watch the feeding frenzy