Halperin: Democrats believe Obama can lose

[Denny Crane]

Mark Halperin write for Time Magazine. I see him as talking head on MSNBC almost daily. He's as hard left as the rest of the people on MSNBC. He writes:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2116715-1,00.html

With five months until Election Day, Barack Obama faces a grim new reality: Republicans now believe Mitt Romney can win, and Democrats believe Obama can lose ... Last week's anemic job-creation and economic-growth data was sandwiched between two Bill Clinton specials: in one television interview, the 42nd President lauded Romney's business record as "sterling"; in another, he veered from the Obama line on the extension of Bush-era tax cuts ... The failure to unseat Wisconsin's Republican governor Scott Walker in a recall election was another bad sign for Democrats since it will rev up conservatives nationwide, including the kind of millionaires who gave big bucks to Walker's effort ... Veteran Democratic strategists from previous presidential bids and on Capitol Hill now wonder if the Obama re-election crew is working with the right message ... The White House remains on a rough political trajectory, with a potentially adverse Supreme Court decision on the Obama health care law looming, additional bad economic news from Europe coming and more worrisome polling pending ... Another danger for the President: the media freak show. Stalking that circus' center ring is Matt Drudge, whose caustic website continues to help drive the news cycle with an emphasis on negative, mocking items about Obama and Vice President Joe Biden and their wives. The latest sign of Drudge's potency: Ed Klein, the author of the virulently anti-Obama book The Amateur, was barred from major TV appearances and mostly ignored by the mainstream media, but the book's prominence on Drudge's website propelled it to the No. 1 slot on the New York Times nonfiction list.

 

[Denny Crane]

Coincidentally, I read on AP's website yesterday that Obama and Democrats had raised $60M last month, but Romney and the republicans hadn't reported their fundraising numbers for last month yet. Today they did. They raised over $70M.

I am not enthusiastic about either candidate, but I feel neither one is an idiot. They're both smart enough. Democrats may have been overconfident while republicans put on their clown show primaries. Now Halperin is complaining about the rough treatment (media freak show) given to Obama? LOL.

I've been consistent all along in saying the election is going to be close. Obama doesn't want to run on his record, so the team is throwing all sorts of stuff out there as distraction. Gay marriage, gender gap, leaking top secret information to make Obama look like he's not soft on the military and war on terror, and even the birther thing.

The truth is Obama cannot dominate Romney in the campaign spending dept. - that's get out the vote, buying ads, having a fully staffed "war room," and so on. The Obama campaign is bumbling, stumbling, and fumbling its way through this election. Without the hopey/changey thing working for him, he's pretty ordinary as a campaigner.

Republicans can and are crafting a coherent message. Jobs. Economy. Are you better off today than you were 4 years ago. Focus on Obama's record. At some point, they can point out all Obama does is complain and point the finger. Then they can point out Clinton got things done with a republican house AND senate.

 

[Shooter]

Only a rabid Democrat would think that Obama isn't in danger in the 2012 election. All you have to do is look at the results of every state election since he came into power. Almost without exception, the Democratic candidates have lost.

The writing is on the wall . . .

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

And Mitt will be better?

 

[Denny Crane]

And Mitt will be better?

Mitt isn't Obama. That's a good enough thing to some people.

 

[Eastoff]

I heard that 60 million dollars is as much as Bill Clinton raised while running for office.

 

[Denny Crane]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/money/archive/money020596.htm

And that probably means hard money. We all might remember the soft money fund raising that was a lot bigger than the hard money raised.