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Obama down in polls after FISA flip


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Obama's rapid drop comes at a strategically challenging moment for the Democratic candidate. Having vanquished Hillary Clinton in early June, Obama quickly went about repositioning himself for a general-election audience--an unpleasant task for any nominee emerging from the pander-heavy primary contests and particularly for a candidate who'd slogged through a vigorous primary challenge in most every contest from January until June. Obama's reversal on FISA legislation, his support of faith-based initiatives and his decision to opt out of the campaign public-financing system left him open to charges he was a flip-flopper. In the new poll, 53 percent of voters (and 50 percent of former Hillary Clinton supporters) believe that Obama has changed his position on key issues in order to gain political advantage.

More seriously, some Obama supporters worry that the spectacle of their candidate eagerly embracing his old rival, Hillary Clinton, and traveling the country courting big donors at lavish fund-raisers, may have done lasting damage to his image as an arbiter of a new kind of politics. This is a major concern since Obama's outsider credentials, have, in the past, played a large part in his appeal to moderate, swing voters. In the new poll, McCain leads Obama among independents 41 percent to 34 percent, with 25 percent favoring neither candidate. In June's NEWSWEEK Poll, Obama bested McCain among independent voters, 48 percent to 36 percent.
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  • Yeah, he vowed to fillibuster that! Then he decided that it was not as important as he thought we thought it was, or some baloney. This after he threw General Clark under the bus to placate the McCainiac swiftboaters.

    He needs to own up to the fact that progressives and liberals don't find him to be as attractive playing the centrist for a pack of bigoted rednecks and Clintonista lobotomites who'd sooner go to hell wearing gasoline soaked polyester than vote for a black man for President. Obama needs to wise up and return to the left where his true base and message are. Those right-leaning centrist Dems aren't likely to support him in November, especially the Clintonistas. Ditto, the rethugs who are skeptical of Gramps. So, wasting a lot of time beating McCain to that punch, pandering for ReThugs who will sooner sit home than vote for him is futile.

    At this point, Obama needs to grow a spine and stop panicing. He's starting to look like some unstable political weathervane, spun off its hinges by every wind broken.
    96thdayofrage

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