Why Is Obama So Calm Right Now?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 3rd, 2010 4:31 am by HL
Why Is Obama So Calm Right Now?
Jonathan Cohn, The New Republic
A lot of liberals are going to be panicking on Tuesday night. President Obama probably won’t be one of them.At least, that’s the impression I get from Ron Brownstein’s latest column for National Journal. Brownstein compares two interviews he did: one with then-President Clinton, just before the 1994 midterms, and one with Obama, just last month.Brownstein recalls a “tormented” Clinton lashing out at congressional Republicans, second-guessing his own strategic decisions, and cursing the distance his office placed between him and the voters….
Democrats Bracing for Losses
Dan Balz, Washington Post
The campaign of 2010 ended as it began: loudly. But the nationwide barrage of last-ditch attack ads and the sniping among the country's political leaders appeared to have little effect on the dynamics of the year. Republicans enter Election Day confident that they will recapture control of the House as Democrats struggle to face what appears likely to be a significantly smaller majority in the Senate.
Why Center Left Parties Are Collapsing
Michael Lind, Salon
The setbacks Democrats are poised to suffer in the midterm election have to be viewed in a trans-Atlantic context. The backlash against Barack Obama and the contemporary Democratic Party is part of a global wave of popular disapproval of social democratic parties that abandoned their traditional working-class constituents in order to woo bankers and professionals.Parties or coalitions of the left hang on to control in Norway, Spain and Austria. But every major country in Europe — Britain, France, Germany and Italy — is now ruled by the center-right. From the Baltic to the Mediterranean,…
