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Did they wear the same thing? It looks like they made a small clone of him.
BY JEFF MASON
UPPER MARLBORO Md. Sun Oct 19, 2014 6:22pm EDT
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama made a rare appearance on the campaign trail on Sunday with a rally to support the Democratic candidate for governor in Maryland, but early departures of crowd members while he spoke underscored his continuing unpopularity.
With approval levels hovering around record lows, Obama has spent most of his campaign-related efforts this year raising money for struggling Democrats, who risk losing control of the U.S. Senate in the Nov. 4 midterm election.
Cont... Obama makes rare campaign trail appearance, people leave early | Reuters
So it appears that Obama is so unpopular that even in states where dems are ahead people leave early when Obama appears. No wonder dems are jumping ship.
I thought my eyes must have been crossed when I first saw the picture. Looks like a mini-me.
It looks like the genes were spliced with OJ Simpson.
Who's still searching for the killer.
Maryland is a safe Democratic state, one of the bluest. No big deal. As for the senate, it is far from a done deal. The Republicans could very easily lose Kansas and Georgia and their expected pickup in North Carolina is not going to happen. The odds are slightly in the GOP's favor, but one miss step could have it all come tumbling down. Remember Aiken and Mourdock from 2012, they turned sure Republicans gains into loses.
As Yogi Berra said, "It ain't over until its over."
Maryland is a safe Democratic state, one of the bluest. No big deal
They say it is an election about nothing. If the republicans win the senate we will still have gridlock with O in the white house. If the democrats win it we will have gridlock without needing O for anything. Either way we get gridlock for the benefit of everyone. We all win either way.
Well, kind of a big deal. Which is likely why the Presidsent in there.
The Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun polls on the matter both had it at a single digit race recently. That's concerning for, as you say, one of the bluest of the blue states. Loosing a Governorship in a state like that would likely have messaging ramifications, especially amongst the base.
With Marylands proximity to DC it's not hard for the President to try and stop in and see if he can give it a bit of a boost, and it makes sense they'd do that. It's unlikely that the Democrats fail to win the Governor race...but single digit differences in the polls at least made it mildly worrisome.
Here's what RCP has when it averaged the three October polls for the Maryland Governors race:
I understand the RCP and looked at it. Note that I pointed out the Washington Post and Baltimore Sun polls, both which are significantly different then the CBS poll. Living in the area, the general thought process would be giving greater credance to the WaPo/Sun polls than the CBS one. And given those two are far closer, while the CBS one is wildly larger, I'd be apt to say that's the more accurate number to look at.
That's the one problem with the RCP average at times. If you have a few polls all showing relatively similar numbers and then one CRAZY outlier, suddenly the average looks a lot higher than it likely really is.
I agree with you a bit regarding Massachusetts, though again I think logistically it's far easier for him to quickly make some comments in Maryland as opposed to massachusetts
Maryland is a safe Democratic state, one of the bluest. No big deal. As for the senate, it is far from a done deal. The Republicans could very easily lose Kansas and Georgia and their expected pickup in North Carolina is not going to happen. The odds are slightly in the GOP's favor, but one miss step could have it all come tumbling down. Remember Aiken and Mourdock from 2012, they turned sure Republicans gains into loses.
As Yogi Berra said, "It ain't over until its over."
True but theres another thing going on here-a black POTUS being jeered by black crowds in a heavily democrat state. I think thats the real news.
True but theres another thing going on here-a black POTUS being jeered by black crowds in a heavily democrat state. I think thats the real news.
He wasn't "jeered by black crowds." There was ONE heckler. ONE. As per your own source.
I heard some of the spin the Democrats put on it. Perhaps they do not think Obama has done enough.
Kobie-Obama was heckled at the worst possible place-and in looking at the data about how blacks have done under Obama it was deserved, dont you agree?
That spin isn't going to help in a few weeks. They know this, but they are desperate.
I don't particularly care about the heckler.
I dont think we are discussing whom you happen to care about.
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