Obama unlikely to stump for other Dems this fall

[ballscout1]

President Obama is likely to play only a minor role in congressional races across the country this fall as his own re-election contest tightens and his fellow Democrats grow reluctant to publicly embrace an incumbent president whose popularity with voters has waned.

“Obama will not be asked [to campaign for Democrats] in a lot of places,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “He will only be asked in heavily blue districts and states.”



Democrats would need to win an additional 25 seats to take control of the House, and they need to hold on to all of their current Senate seats to maintain their four-vote majority in the upper chamber.



Missouri and Montana, which both lean Republican, are among the states where Democrats don’t plan to campaign with Obama, Sabato said.

“Claire McCaskill cannot afford to be seen with Barack Obama; Jon Tester cannot afford to be seen with Barack Obama,” Sabato said, referring to Democratic incumbent senators up for election in Missouri and Montana, respectively.



If McCaskill, Tester and other Democrats running in Republican-leaning states openly embrace Obama over the next five months, they risk alienating the moderate voters on whom their own political fates may depend, analysts said.



“President Obama has to run his race,” Tester told Esquire. “I’m gonna run my race. And they’re gonna be two separate races.”

If an election becomes a referendum on a sitting president, the president’s party tends to lose, noted one Democratic strategist with ties to the White House.



But not all Democrats will be dodging photo ops with Obama.



In the deeply blue state of Massachusetts, Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has been talking up her ties to Obama in television ads targeting Republican Sen. Scott Brown.



Obama’s approval ratings remain high in Massachusetts, where in 2008 he won 62 percent of the vote over Arizona Sen. John McCain. The president’s fundraising prowess also could prove valuable to a nonincumbent like Warren.



Likewise, former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine hasn’t ducked his ties to Obama in his run for a Senate seat, most likely against Republican George Allen, also a former Virginia governor. Kaine, who led the Democratic National Committee for Obama, is hosting a campaign event for Obama campaign workers Sunday in Charlottesville.



With Obama’s own re-election race against Republican Mitt Romney already tightening, some analysts wonder whether the president will even have time to worry about other Democrats.



The Obama campaign did not respond to The Washington Examiner’s inquiry regarding which candidates, if any, the president plans on campaigning for in the coming months.

hpeterson@washingtonexaminer.com

 

[water]

Fuck them and fuck this country being obsessed with the color of the man.

Get a 5, 10, 15 plan together.

Western civilization is on the decline.

The titanic is sinking, you have been warned.

 

[sirwoodz]

same thing happened to bush...

 

[ballscout1]

same thing happened to bush...

samething Gore pulled on Clinton in 2000

 

[doggish_098]

Anybody who thinks Obama wont be out there selling the Dems and his/their agenda doesnt know politics.

white people have been playing the political games long before Obama and long after he is gone. so save me all this bull about how he will remain low key.

 

[Chase Bannon]

The President fucked him or he wouldn't be in this situation. You come into office with an 80% approval rating, 60 left leaning Senators (Filibuster Majority) and a heavily controlled House, but now you find yourself in hard race with a weak opponent. All because you wanted to bring the parties together. What a fuckin joke. When you got those kind of numbers on your side the country doesn't want to see you rule from the middle, they wanted democratic policies put in place. Trust me. Republicans have a point when they said the President didn't have the experience to run the White House. We are trying to cover up his lack of experience by pointing out the racist things towards him, but in all actuality he fucked up a great opportunity to be a top 5 president.

 

[ballscout1]

The President fucked him or he wouldn't be in this situation. You come into office with an 80% approval rating, 60 left leaning Senators (Filibuster Majority) and a heavily controlled House, but now you find yourself in hard race with a weak opponent. All because you wanted to bring the parties together. What a fuckin joke. When you got those kind of numbers on your side the country doesn't want to see you rule from the middle, they wanted democratic policies put in place. Trust me. Republicans have a point when they said the President didn't have the experience to run the White House. We are trying to cover up his lack of experience by pointing out the racist things towards him, but in all actuality he fucked up a great opportunity to be a top 5 president.

And he got many things passed in the first two years when he had a left leaning senate. But it was by no means fillibuster proof because the amount of blue dogs who were afraid to vote because they were protecting themselves.

And miss me with that experience shit..

Neither Roosevelt had experience
Neither did Eishenhower and many more

The problem is them changing the intent of the constitution from a simple majority to that 60 vote bullshit

The intent was never to give the power to the minority and that is exactly what the 60 vote requirment does.

The governing is always done from the center with compromise except this time.

Again portraying that he had the support of 60 even in his first two years isn't close to true.

And to show how fucked up the crakkas have gotten is even a moderate like Lugger was defeated.

The moderate republicans who made compromise with Clinton and got things done were victimized by their own party.

And if you think the problem is he is running against a weak candidate you are missing whats in front of you.

The majority of damage is being done at the state level and in the conservative courts.

Voter supression is being done at the states

The courts are making nonsensical rulings starting with Citizens United.

 

[Chase Bannon]

And he got many things passed in the first two years when he had a left leaning senate. But it was by no means fillibuster proof because the amount of blue dogs who were afraid to vote because they were protecting themselves.

And miss me with that experience shit..

Neither Roosevelt had experience
Neither did Eishenhower and many more

The problem is them changing the intent of the constitution from a simple majority to that 60 vote bullshit

The intent was never to give the power to the minority and that is exactly what the 60 vote requirment does.

The governing is always done from the center with compromise except this time.

Again portraying that he had the support of 60 even in his first two years isn't close to true.

And to show how fucked up the crakkas have gotten is even a moderate like Lugger was defeated.

The moderate republicans who made compromise with Clinton and got things done were victimized by their own party.

And if you think the problem is he is running against a weak candidate you are missing whats in front of you.

The majority of damage is being done at the state level and in the conservative courts.

Voter supression is being done at the states

The courts are making nonsensical rulings starting with Citizens United.

You mean the same Roosevelt who was Governor of New York and the Eisenhower who was a 5-star general and Chief of staff in the Army? If that isn't leadership experience, I don't know what is. Even though there were Blue Dog Dems, he could have still pass some major shit like a jobs bill, etc, but he tried to pass social bills with Blue dogs. You can't come into white house doing that. Pass shit everyone in your own party can agree on.

 

[curryshotta]

I see liberals and poor/middle class folks need another 16 years of republicans as a reminder.

 

[ballscout1]

I see liberals and poor/middle class folks need another 16 years of republicans as a reminder.

you really think after another 16 years of Tea Party shit there will be anything left ?

 

[curryshotta]

you really think after another 16 years of Tea Party shit there will be anything left ?

seems they have to learn the hard way

 

[BKF]

You mean the same Roosevelt who was Governor of New York and the Eisenhower who was a 5-star general and Chief of staff in the Army? If that isn't leadership experience, I don't know what is. Even though there were Blue Dog Dems, he could have still pass some major shit like a jobs bill, etc, but he tried to pass social bills with Blue dogs. You can't come into white house doing that. Pass shit everyone in your own party can agree on.

Cut the bs. Them blue dogs are/were in republican leaning districts and were just as much obstructionist as the straight up republicans. In fact the house side was passing shit left and right. Only for the passed bills to sit in the senate and die. The true problem is folks weren't really ready for change (especially not fast change). Even the voter who sat on their hands and let the republicans take back the house and nearly the senate.

 

[dblaq1]

The President fucked him or he wouldn't be in this situation. You come into office with an 80% approval rating, 60 left leaning Senators (Filibuster Majority) and a heavily controlled House, but now you find yourself in hard race with a weak opponent. All because you wanted to bring the parties together. What a fuckin joke. When you got those kind of numbers on your side the country doesn't want to see you rule from the middle, they wanted democratic policies put in place. Trust me. Republicans have a point when they said the President didn't have the experience to run the White House. We are trying to cover up his lack of experience by pointing out the racist things towards him, but in all actuality he fucked up a great opportunity to be a top 5 president.

Even though I will vote for his ass again (smh) I co-sign your statement. He fucked up a perfect situation trying to play match maker.... He should have went in as President believing he would be one and done and steamed rolled them Mafukas!!!!!

 

[Ming Fei Hong]

same thing happened to bush...

samething Gore pulled on Clinton in 2000

Those Republicans who iced Bush and Gore (who distanced himself from Clinton) all lost. If Dems pull this stunt, they'll get their asses handed to them in November and Obama will still win.

 

[Ming Fei Hong]

Cut the bs. Them blue dogs are/were in republican leaning districts and were just as much obstructionist as the straight up republicans. In fact the house side was passing shit left and right. Only for the passed bills to sit in the senate and die. The true problem is folks weren't really ready for change (especially not fast change). Even the voter who sat on their hands and let the republicans take back the house and nearly the senate.

 

[BKF]

Even though I will vote for his ass again (smh) I co-sign your statement. He fucked up a perfect situation trying to play match maker.... He should have went in as President believing he would be one and done and steamed rolled them Mafukas!!!!!

Show me the plan of how he could have simply "steamed rolled them Mafukas"?

 

[Upgrade Dave]

The President fucked him or he wouldn't be in this situation. You come into office with an 80% approval rating, 60 left leaning Senators (Filibuster Majority) and a heavily controlled House, but now you find yourself in hard race with a weak opponent. All because you wanted to bring the parties together. What a fuckin joke. When you got those kind of numbers on your side the country doesn't want to see you rule from the middle, they wanted democratic policies put in place. Trust me. Republicans have a point when they said the President didn't have the experience to run the White House. We are trying to cover up his lack of experience by pointing out the racist things towards him, but in all actuality he fucked up a great opportunity to be a top 5 president.

Never happened. At least four of those supposedly "left leaning" Senators voted with Republicans on major issues: Leiberman, Nelson, Lincoln, Landrieu. That's four votes gone without any guarantee of picking up the two (and only two) moderate Republicans, Snowe and Collins. So there isn't a filibuster proof majority without major concessions to either those four or the two Republicans.
Obama did what every single President of modern history has done: governed from the middle. So the problem isn't his actions but the unified front against him and his team's inability to hard sell their accomplishments, overestimating the intelligence of the American public.

 

[Upgrade Dave]

Cut the bs. Them blue dogs are/were in republican leaning districts and were just as much obstructionist as the straight up republicans. In fact the house side was passing shit left and right. Only for the passed bills to sit in the senate and die. The true problem is folks weren't really ready for change (especially not fast change). Even the voter who sat on their hands and let the republicans take back the house and nearly the senate.

And on some matters, like Gitmo, it wasn't just Blue Dogs and Republicans fighting him but other supposedly liberal Democrats as well.

Show me the plan of how he could have simply "steamed rolled them Mafukas"?

Won't happen.

 

[Archonic Monk]

How stupid can Mf be if they think not fighting for nothing then beefing about things getting worse.

Crazy ... Them Republican working overtime as a cohesive unit with Big business on their side meaning big money is in their pockets & vice verse

Being involved means something in this country and too many people don't give a fuck about civics

Idiots

 

[Chase Bannon]

Even though I will vote for his ass again (smh) I co-sign your statement. He fucked up a perfect situation trying to play match maker.... He should have went in as President believing he would be one and done and steamed rolled them Mafukas!!!!!

You right. He wasted a shit load of time trying to bridge the gap.

Never happened. At least four of those supposedly "left leaning" Senators voted with Republicans on major issues: Leiberman, Nelson, Lincoln, Landrieu. That's four votes gone without any guarantee of picking up the two (and only two) moderate Republicans, Snowe and Collins. So there isn't a filibuster proof majority without major concessions to either those four or the two Republicans.
Obama did what every single President of modern history has done: governed from the middle. So the problem isn't his actions but the unified front against him and his team's inability to hard sell their accomplishments, overestimating the intelligence of the American public.

Landrieu and the other moderate and right leaning Democratic Senators would have easily sided with Dems over a infrastructure bill and possibly close some tax loopholes. Hell they may have voted for another stimulus bill, but the Pres wanted to pass a healthcare bill. That shit drained the country and kill his momentum. The country sinking in the hole and you worried about healthcare???? Don't get me wrong. When it comes to my personal values my health ranks 2nd on my list under spirituality. My health ranks higher than finances etc. But most of the country don't value health over money. Jobs according to the American people was ranked much higher than health. People voted him in office for jobs. Dems biggest problem is they think they know what's best for people instead of giving people what they want. Clearly Pres Obama thinks he knows what people need versus what they want. Notice when people sent him a message in 2010 by voting out his party members he started focusing on debt reduction.

Dave. I'm willing to bet you are a pretty hardcore Dem because you said the key line "overestimating the intelligence". That statement is why Dems have a hard time relating to people and come across as elitist. Dems would say they overestimate the intelligence of the American people. FDR or a people person would have said "I didn't get my message across to the common man" Dems always forget they are public servants at times.