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Saturday, June 9, 2012

Dems jittery about Obama’s sputtering campaign




Dems jittery about Obama’s sputtering campaign:
Says ultra-liberal, hyper-partisan Eleanor Clift:
If the next five months are anything like the last two, Barack Obama is toast. That’s what many Democrats are saying privately, and it’s not about Wisconsin.
The effort to recall Scott Walker failed, but exit polls show the president holding an edge in the state, which hasn’t voted Republican since 1984. It’s the weak job numbers from last week that has Democrats panicking. There’s a sense that the economy has stalled, and that the Obama campaign is stuck in a time warp with a message that assumes steady if slow progress, when the jobs picture may not get better.  
“Our real concern is that they’re just sleepwalking,” says a Democratic strategist, who did not want to be quoted by name criticizing the Obama campaign.  His fear, echoed by many, is that Obama’s responses to the dire economic conditions fall far short of the bold leadership needed.
Especially if he’s campaigning full-time, holding more fundraisers than his last five predecessors combined…

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