Fractional politics in an underwhelming rallying cry, while hoping a mythical “Claudia” – who “at 29 years old” had “never been involved in the political process” but in 2008 “made her first-ever trip to the polls” – comes to the rescue:
Obama seeks to ‘reconnect…young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women’ for 2010
Obama speaks with unusual demographic frankness about his coalition in his appeal to “young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women who powered our victory in 2008 [to] stand together once again.”
Turning out those so-called “surge” voters — who turned out for the first time to back Obama, but who sat out gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia last year — has become the Democrats’ central pre-occupation for the midterm elections, and the new Democratic effort to nationalize the election around Obama and his agenda mark an attempt to energize those voters.
Old Caucasian or Asian males need not apply?
Jennifer Rubin:
Several things are noteworthy. First, so much for the post-racial presidency. We are back to naked pleas for racial solidarity. This comes from a man who told us that there were no Blue States or Red States, and that we should stop carving up the electorate into ethnic and racial groups. It was moving and appropriate and now it’s inoperative.
Second, this also suggests that just about everyone else in the electorate is a lost cause — whites, men, independents, and older voters. The Obama coalition has fractured — a little later than Hillary Clinton predicted, but it has. It seems he is reduced to the core left, not a recipe for successful governance or re-election.
And it’s the same sales pitch we heard in 2008.
Considering how many Dems are resigning because they know they will not get re-elected, a lot of “Claudias” are going to have to make their “first-ever trip to the polls.”
UPDATE, Tuesday 27 April:
The Governing Class’ Childish and Vicious Definition of Racism
That’s funny, at my polling location, which votes overwhelming Republican, I usually see mostly women voting, no matter what time of day I’ve gone to vote. Guess he should add a modifier to the type of women he’d like to vote in 2010, eh?
This woman won’t be voting for his policies, no matter how much he begs. My name isn’t “Claudia”.
These pre-election resignations and retirements seem atypical. In 1994 when the Republicans regained both chambers there were a rash of resignations and quite a few former committee chairman chose to exit as their prospects of returning to power were remote. But then that election was seen as somewhat of a surprise where this time the poohbahs seem to notice that the smoke signals from the hills are not from early backyard barbques. This go around seems to have not stiffened the spines but merely provided an excuse to gain that K Street corner office.
I would be concerned about the labor unions/Acorn people working on corrupting the voter’s rolls. The Acorn brand is damaged yet the Acorn people are still operating. They go by different names. I, for one, do not want my vote canceled by a dead person residing in a cemetery.
The Republicans had better be out and about working real hard to register Republican voters. They can not afford to sit back and just wait for November.
Also, Republicans ought to give financial support to Republican candidates in toss up races. I plan to vote for my Congressman who has a safe seat yet donate to a toss up race candidate.
The bottom line is the Republicans had better out work the ones supporting Obama.
I’m glad this moron has identified the groups I can thank for the mess this country is now in. I have all I can do to not make a contemptuous gesture when I see an obama bumper sticker.
∅bama isn’t saying anything new.
Okay, so the angriest, least objective people in America are screaming racism. Wait, they’ve been screaming that all along (Glenn Beck could only hold back about 6 months before letting his hatred out across the airwaves).
It’s obvious to anyone watching the Teabaggers on TV that they are angry, old, white guys and their angry old women. They desperately want to trick everyone into thinking they are some kind of youth movement with universal appeal, even while they have successfully embarrassed away independents, other Republicans, and, yes, young people with their over-the-top language, hatred, and partisanship? No sane person believes the Teabaggers are NOT Republicans with a spiffy new name and license to say the most outlandish, shamelessly dishonest shiznit for TV cameras.
Now we are supposed to pause, listen, and feel their pain in not being mentioned by Obama in an advertisement? Hey, I didn’t use the term “old, white men” today, does that make me a racist? And doesn’t it hold to that type of “logic” to say that if you aren’t speaking out every day about the oppression felt by old, angry white guys, that YOU might be called a racist, too? The split in 2008 was generational. Get over it.