Obama will win with a coalition never seen before, which will leave out in the cold extremeist on the fringes of both Parties. This is a highly desireable outcome, imho, and speaks to the genius of Obama's new politics.
I'm not a big fan of wackiness after almost 8 years of insanity. I don't care which side of the spectrum the wacky comes from - I just don't want any at all.
"Obama will win with a coalition never seen before, which will leave out in the cold extremeist on the fringes of both Parties. This is a highly desireable outcome, imho, and speaks to the genius of Obama's new politics."
You clearly doesn't understand politics. After all the economic problems that have happened in 2008 alone, Obama should be up by 10 points. Not only that McCain had run a pitiful campaign, yet he is still within the margin of error or very close to it. WHAT NEW POLITICS? At best he is a poor man's Bill Clinton.
The comment below this one was meant as a response to you.
This whole "he should be winning by XX points" argument always gets me. In 2004, Bush got 51% of the vote. I almost believe that, if it was possible for him to run for a third term, he would at least be hovering in the low 40's right now, and I would probably give him 45% odds of ultimately winning reelection. And, people like McCain better than Bush.
The days of large-scale, Reaganesque blowouts are over. I don't even think it's possible to approach Bill Clinton's victory over Dole in today's environment. Fox News and talk radio keep slightly less than half of voters loyal to the Republican brand, even if they don't like the particular candidate that the Republicans field. And, because McCain isn't Bush, Republicans dissatisfied with Bush can at least hope that McCain would be different.
I know it's fun to throw out imaginary numbers to show how well the nominee would be doing if he followed your advice, but if so perhaps you could put forward a plausible scenario in which all of these hypothetical votes would materialize.
At this point in 1992, Bill Clinton was in THIRD place.
