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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Endangered Dem on Obama: “I don’t care to have him campaign for me”
by Jammie
Well, isn’t this a ringing endorsement? This cat is radioactive and now
Democrats aren’t afraid to go on record saying as much.
The White House and Senate Democrats are preparing an extensive midterm
campaign strategy built around one unavoidable fact: Hardly any candidates
in the most competitive states want President Barack Obama anywhere near
them.
POLITICO spoke with nearly every incumbent up for reelection and
aspiring Democratic Senate candidates across the country, but only a handful
gave an unequivocal “yes” when asked whether they wanted Obama to come
campaign with them.
“I don’t care to have him campaign for me,” said Alaska Sen. Mark
Begich. “I’d rather him come up to see where his policies aren’t working.
He’s wrong on ANWR, we’ve had struggles to try to get our permits done
down in the southeast for our timber industry, I want to show him how
important the military is in Fairbanks.”
Obama’s unpopularity could cost Democrats the Senate, but vulnerable
incumbents need the full resources of the White House to hang onto the
majority. So the president and party leadership are exploring how to deploy
Obama and his team in a way that minimizes complications for Democrats in
places like Colorado, Georgia or Kentucky where his polls are underwater.
The White House also needs to buck the historic trend of the president’s
party losing seats in the midterm election of his second term.
Obama needs to look at the upside. Instead of these tedious campaign events
there’s so much more free time to play golf and help destroy the economy.
Republicans say there’s no way for Democrats to suddenly break with the
president.
“The problem is [they are] the people who voted for his policies down
the line, including Obamacare,” said Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn (R-
Texas). “If they think they’re going to separate themselves from those
votes because the president doesn’t show up and stand next to them and put
his arm around them, I think they’re mistaken.”
They can run from Obama, but they can’t run from their votes for ObamaCare. |
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