Reply #68: I'll vote straight ticket D, including Obama

[Awsi Dooger]

Look, we tend to get caught in the here and now, and lose perspective. Once September and October roll around, the primary will be a vague memory. That seems impossible now, but check with me at the time.

In mid February posters were Googling to remember what late December was like, the MTP appearance when Hillary thought it would be over by Super Tuesday, February 5th. So that's an indication of how much changes in 5 or 6 weeks. By the general election we'll have hundreds of added variables and that's where the focus will be. Hillary supporters will come around. It's fashionable to try to make yourself stand out by haughtily insisting you'll never vote for so-and-so. The current polls in that regard are meaningless.

While casting a ballot for Obama, I'll still be convinced we blew it. As others have posted in this thread, I find him suffocatingly arrogant, and I think he'll prove less than we imagine. I mentioned this elsewhere but it earns repeating: if Obama is JFKesque, then how did Hillary win virtually every early debate from him, and many in decisive fashion?

I default to too many sports analogies but the comparison I would make is to offensive minded sports teams, like pantyhose passing teams in football or fast breaking, up tempo, no-defense teams in basketball. The public invariably falls for teams like that, adopting lousy application of priority and content to ignore the built-in vulnerabilities. Every time I think of Barack Obama, that's what he reminds me of.