28% , OUCH, that hurts..........
That is B.H.O.'S approval rating in West Virginia, according to Democratic firm Public Policy Polling.
Now it’s not that anyone thought that Obama was going to win West Virginia next year. Given his administration’s efforts to hobble the coal industry, it seems that the Obama team had taken the Mountain State off the table from the very start
While Democrats hold that Obama is in trouble because he lacks the political chops to face down House Republicans and connect with anxious American voters, Republicans mostly believe that Obama can’t replicate Clinton’s success because he is so ideologically rigid.
But most interesting to Power Play, it shows why Obama has embarked on an unprecedented kind of re-election bid. Obama is playing narrow, base politics with the promise of brutal attacks on his eventual opponent. Obama is also talking down the state of the nation in a bid to lower expectations for his performance. Call it the Anti-Bubba.
But Obama can’t do what Clinton did and that’s because of West Virginia and other like-minded states. There are at least six states that Clinton won in 1996 where Obama will not be competitive in 2012: Arizona, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia.
While the Obama team believes it can put Virginia, North Carolina and Colorado in the win column for Democrats this cycle, the six states out of reach represent 49 electoral votes, as many as New York and Pennsylvania combined.
It will be fun to watch and see how the State Primaries play out, just to see who B.H.O. gets to go up against in 2012.
YOURS IN LIBERTY ! ! !
Bob Yeager
That is B.H.O.'S approval rating in West Virginia, according to Democratic firm Public Policy Polling.
That is a serious warning sign for the President. Normally I don't put a lot of stock in public opinion polls, but this is in a state that is probably the largest coal producing state for it's size in the nation.
And the current President is very much anti-coal.
While Democrats hold that Obama is in trouble because he lacks the political chops to face down House Republicans and connect with anxious American voters, Republicans mostly believe that Obama can’t replicate Clinton’s success because he is so ideologically rigid.
But Obama can’t do what Clinton did and that’s because of West Virginia and other like-minded states. There are at least six states that Clinton won in 1996 where Obama will not be competitive in 2012: Arizona, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia.
While the Obama team believes it can put Virginia, North Carolina and Colorado in the win column for Democrats this cycle, the six states out of reach represent 49 electoral votes, as many as New York and Pennsylvania combined.
It will be fun to watch and see how the State Primaries play out, just to see who B.H.O. gets to go up against in 2012.
YOURS IN LIBERTY ! ! !
Bob Yeager
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