Autumn Angst: Dems fret about Obama

[Wretched Excess]

are the rats scurrying off the ship?  are The BarackStar!'s 15 minutes of fame over?

and it was interesting that is was a dem fund raiser that was talking about it being a nightmare . . .

Autumn Angst: Dems fret about Obama

Polls showing John McCain tied or even ahead of Barack Obama are stirring angst and second-guessing among some of the Democratic Party’s most experienced operatives, who worry that Obama squandered opportunities over the summer and may still be underestimating his challenges this fall.

“It’s more than an increased anxiety,” said Doug Schoen, who worked as one of Bill Clinton’s lead pollsters during his 1996 reelection and has worked for both Democrats and independents in recent years. “It’s a palpable frustration. Deep-seated unease in the sense that the message has gotten away from them.”

Joe Trippi, a consultant behind Howard Dean’s flash-in-the-pan presidential campaign in 2004 and John Edwards’ race in 2008, said the Obama campaign was slow to recognize how the selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as McCain’s running mate would change the dynamic of the race.

“They were set up to run ‘experience versus change,’ what they had run [against Hillary] Clinton,” Trippi said. “And I think Palin clearly moved that to be change or reform, versus change. They are adjusting to that and that threw them off balance a little bit.”

A major Democratic fundraiser described it a good bit more starkly after digesting the polls of recent days: “I’m so depressed. It’s happening again. It’s a nightmare.”

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[TheSarge]

Polls showing John McCain tied or even ahead of Barack Obama are stirring angst and second-guessing among some of the Democratic Party’s most experienced operatives, who worry that Obama squandered opportunities over the summer and may still be underestimating his challenges this fall.

“It’s more than an increased anxiety,” said Doug Schoen, who worked as one of Bill Clinton’s lead pollsters during his 1996 reelection and has worked for both Democrats and independents in recent years. “It’s a palpable frustration. Deep-seated unease in the sense that the message has gotten away from them.”

Joe Trippi, a consultant behind Howard Dean’s flash-in-the-pan presidential campaign in 2004 and John Edwards’ race in 2008, said the Obama campaign was slow to recognize how the selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as McCain’s running mate would change the dynamic of the race.

“They were set up to run ‘experience versus change,’ what they had run [against Hillary] Clinton,” Trippi said. “And I think Palin clearly moved that to be change [and] reform, versus change. They are adjusting to that and that threw them off balance a little bit.”

A major Democratic fundraiser described it a good bit more starkly after digesting the polls of recent days: “I’m so depressed. It’s happening again. It’s a nightmare.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13357.html

[Willow]

I’m so depressed. It’s happening again. It’s a nightmare.”







 

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[Hawkgirl]

 




 

[Hawkgirl]

Also, this goes to show how pathetic libs are.  Obama's been the front runner all along and only until recently has he dipped and they are already crying.  McCain has been struggling from the onset and you never heard Republicans shout defeat...we kept fighting and holding our own.

It's not coincidence that the democrats are known as the party of defeat.  They are melting down after just 2 weeks of falling behind.  What strenth could they possibly fake when the oponent is not a fellow american?

[DixieBelle]

+1 on all of it.

[miskie]

awesome. The more unglued they become the more mistakes they will make.

[NHSparky]

So "fret" is the new full-blown panic mode in Demspeak, eh?

[Wretched Excess]

I merged the dups.

[Chris_]

“It’s a palpable frustration. Deep-seated unease in the sense that the message has gotten away from them.”

No, the message is quite clear.  the messi-uh could not be clearer.

Socialism -- Canada writ large -- is your desire. 

The USA doesn't want it.

Problem Solved.