Kicking the Pricks
One of the hippies over at Duncan Black’s opium den linked to this Adam Nagourney analysis. I think the boy’s still smarting at his recent treatment by the Savior’s campaign team. What do you think?
It is a question that has hovered over Senator Barack Obama even as he has passed milestone after milestone in his race for the White House: Why is he not doing better?
It shadowed him as he struggled against Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in many states through the primaries - results that sometimes stood at odds with the huge, enthusiastic crowds that turned out to see him. It was there in the exit polls that suggested that many Democrats were uncomfortable with Obama, putting an asterisk next to some of his biggest primary victories.
And it is back again as he returns from an overseas trip that even Republicans have described as politically triumphant. In this case, the question is why, given how sour Americans feel about President George W. Bush and the Republican Party, about the Iraq war and the ailing economy that Bush will leave to his successor and about the perception that Obama is running such a better campaign than Senator John McCain, the senator from Illinois is not doing even better in national opinion polls.
The answer to your question, Adam, is that no one knows. With almost the entire Big Media establishment just queer for the man, it’s difficult to see what’s keeping Obama’s numbers down in the single digits. His coronation is a foregone conclusion, if you watch the TV or read propagandistic shit like the New York Times, so who knows?
But keep working on the antagonism, baby. It may some day even come to resemble journalism.
