From the Politico:
The Democratic National Committee this morning released this clip of the president rallying the troops, if rather coolly, for 2010. Obama’s express goal: “reconnecting” with the voters who voted for the first time in 2008, but who may not plan to vote in the lower-profile Congressional elections this year.
Obama speaks with unusual demographic frankness about his coalition in his appeal to “young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women who powered our victory in 2008 [to] stand together once again.”
Turning out those so-called “surge” voters — who turned out for the first time to back Obama, but who sat out gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia last year — has become the Democrats’ central pre-occupation for the midterm elections, and the new Democratic effort to nationalize the election around Obama and his agenda mark an attempt to energize those voters.
SideBear: I find this very interesting. First of all many white people voted for Obama in 2008 and I am sure some of them did so was because he was a person of color to eradicate their personal guilt feelings regarding racism. An Obama Presidency was to once and for all bring America into a post-racial society.
As the video suggests is he not appealing to voters along ethic and racial lines? Obama played the race card. Does this not suggest all that 2008 campaign rhetoric coming together as one… was just that rhetoric.
Secondly, has Obama and the Democrats conceded that whites, men, independents and older voters are a lost cause? If so, they are in big trouble. The voters who elected Obama in 2008 are not going to resemble the older more conservative voters who can’t wait until November. The adults are going to take this country back.
The new “N” word for 2010 is NOVEMBER!
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