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New Polls Confirm Obama’s Democratic Base Crumbles


With all of the spotlights on the high-stakes debt maneuverings by President Obama and Speaker John Boehner the last few days, few people noticed what Vermont’s Sen. Bernie Sanders said:

“I think it would be a good idea if President Obama faced some primary opposition.”

This is political treason 469 days before a presidential election. Yes, yes, this is just a crusty old New England independent for now, albeit one who caucuses loyally with Harry Reid’s Democratic posse.

But while most of the media focuses on Republican Boehner and the tea party pressures on him to raise the debt limit not one Liberty dime, Sanders’ mumblings are a useful reminder that hidden in the shadows of this left-handed presidency are militant progressives like Sanders who don’t want to cut one Liberty dime of non-Pentagon spending.

Closely read the transcript of Obama’s Monday statement on the debt talks stalemate.

An Unbalanced Approach to a Balanced Approach

Using political forensics, notice any clues, perhaps telltale code words that reveal to whom he was really addressing his Monday message? Clearly, it wasn’t congressional Republicans — or Democrats, for that matter.

The nation’s top talker uttered 4,526 words in those remarks. He said “balanced approach” seven times, three times in a single paragraph.

That’s the giveaway. Obviously, David Plouffe and the incumbent’s strategists have been polling phrases for use in this ongoing debt duel, which is more about 2012 now than 2011. “Balanced approach” is no sweet talk for old Bernie or tea sippers on the other side.

Obama is running for the center already, aiming for the independents who played such a crucial role in his victorious coalition in 2008. They were the first to start abandoning the good ship Obama back in 2009 when all the ex-state senator could do was talk about healthcare, when jobs and the economy were the peoples’ priority.

Democrats lost the New Jersey and Virginia governor’s offices largely as a result of that and Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat in Massachusetts. And then came last November’s midterms when voters chose the approach of that historic pack of House-bound Republicans.

Republicans have their own poll problems in some areas. But even without an identified GOP presidential alternative, we’ve had a plethora of recent polls showing Obama’s fading job approval, especially on the economy.

Now, comes a new ABC News/Washington Post poll with a whole harvest of revelations, among them, strong indications that Obama’s liberal base is starting to crumble. Among the nuggets:

Despite those hundreds of billions of blown stimulus dollars and almost as many upturn promises from Joe Biden, 82% of Americans still say their job market is struggling. Ninety percent rate the economy negatively, including half who give it the worst rating of “poor.”

READ MORE: LA TIMES



5 Responses

  1. Sanders isn’t even a Democrat.

    Obama does need to firm up is base and stop trying to placate the extremist Republicans, who will not be placated no matter what.

  2. Sanders isn’t even a Democrat.

    correct, he is Independent (just like Joe Leiberman) yet he always caucuses with the democrats (just like Joe) he is more of a socialist than the democrats are

  3. A problem for typical YWN bloggers is that they are so convinced that Obama “really” is a Socialist, rather than a vacillating centrist, that they understand neither the seriousness nor the depth of criticism of the President from the left. Such a sophisticated bunch are these bloggers!

  4. ” he is more of a socialist than the democrats are”

    Most of the Democrats are not socialists; President Obama certainly is not. Sen. Sanders does call himself a socialist and indeed he appears never to have been a Democrat, but interestingly he is one of the few members of Congress to have spent most of his pre-congressional career in the private sector, running his own business.

  5. 1&2,

    Actually he is an avowed socialist however he caucuses with the Democrats since they are closest to his line of thinking.

    3. Obama is NO centrist! 60% of the country is “middle right.” Obama is not even in the same ballpark!

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