Johnson City, TN – In 2012 Barak Obama told voters that it
was to be his last campaign. And while this year, President of the United
States of America is not a position up for grabs, Mr. Obama is still very much
on the ballot, although many Democrats wish it was not so.
The man has gone from rock star to rock bottom in a period of
eighteen months. And while the most expensive midterms campaign in history went
on, the president was forced to sit a great deal of it out with some Democrats
declining to be photographed with him, and one even declining to say whether
she had voted for him or not.
The truth is however, Barak Obama cannot get away from the
fact that he is a Democrat -the most powerful and most well-known Democrat, at
that. He is basically the face of the party. And yes, this is an election about
him, his policies, what people think of them, and how they will be implemented.
The proof can be found in his weekly addresses, posted to the blog of
whitehouse.gov, in which he says repeatedly that the Republicans are the ones
blocking all of his plans. So obviously the Democrats are on board with the
president, whether they want their pictures taken with him or not.
That the president is unpopular no one can deny. Over half of
the nation disapproves of the job he is doing. As a result of this, the
Republicans have a now better than 3 in 4 chance of winning the senate, and the
Democrats would have gain several seats to take the house, while even there the
odds are against them, with it being statistically more likely that the
Republicans will actually gain seats there rather than lose them. The
Republicans would need to gain only 13 seats to have the biggest margin of
power since 1945.
The Democrats, with Barack Obama tied like a millstone around
their neck, are down on the mat, according to the numbers. Numbers are not
everything. True. There have been many ring fights where those down for the
count came up to give the knockout blow. But usually that only happens in the
movies.
The more likely thing, according all the experts, the
calculators, and the algorithms, is that the Democrats are about to tap out of
this one.
Andrew C. Abbott
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