{"id":2473,"date":"2011-11-29T23:03:54","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T04:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2011-11-30T11:47:40","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T16:47:40","slug":"play-it-again-sam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=2473","title":{"rendered":"Play it Again, Sam??"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quick political note here — on why Obama may be in for an uphill battle in his bid to get re-elected. I was listening tonight to the Voice of Russia in America radio station during my drive home from work, and a young fellow named Sam Arrero was talking. Mr. Arrero is a VofRA “capitol correspondent” based in Washington DC, and was discussing with another VofRA announcer the kick-off of Obama’s election campaign. Mr. Arrero noted that he had been a very active volunteer for the Obama campaign in 2008, and said that he “might volunteer again” in 2012. <\/p>\n

Might. A hint of ambivalence about Obama on the part of America’s educated youth. Not a good sign for the President, who depended so heavily on youth enthusiasm in 2008.<\/p>\n

Also, there’s an interesting cover story in New York Mag<\/a> about the Occupy movement [originally ‘Occupy Wall Street’, now morphing into ‘Occupy The World’<\/strong>] and what it could mean for Obama in 2012. The title of the article is ‘2012=1968?’. And that is a very good question. In the 1968 election, Richard Nixon and the GOP turned the opinions of the core independent voters who ultimately select our Presidents away from Hubert Humphrey and the Democrats, by equating the Dems with the many youth protests that were happening on the campuses (and so famously at the Democratic convention in Chicago) at the time. <\/p>\n

If the GOP can pin the less savory aspects of the Occupy movement (a bit of violence, much inconvenience, disheveled appearances) on Obama and his like, then the ‘solid middle’ voters might turn against him (don’t forget that Barack is a former community organizer, and OWS is definitely some sort of organized community). That would not bode well for the Dems on election night in key states like Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin and even Pennsylvania. If I were an Obama strategist I would already write off Indiana, North Carolina, Virginia, and if early polls mean anything, New Hampshire.<\/p>\n

Sure, it’s still way too early to tell. Perhaps ‘Occupy Everyplace’ will help to turn out enough young voters to tip the balance once more for the Democrats. But the winds which blew so favorably for Barack Obama starting about this time in 2007 seem to have shifted into his face. I’d like to see Obama re-elected, I believe he could finally get the hang of being President during his second term. But I wouldn’t even bet 50 cents with 10 to 1 odds right now. All bets are off. The youth activism that Barack Obama inspired back in 2008 has mutated into the Occupy movement, and that could cut either way for the Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quick political note here — on why Obama may be in for an uphill battle in his bid to get re-elected. I was listening tonight to the Voice of Russia in America radio station during my drive home from work, and a young fellow named Sam Arrero was talking. Mr. Arrero is a VofRA “capitol […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2475,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions\/2475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}