Odd as it might sound to Republicans and independents, Democrats largely approved of Obama's seventy minute, disorganized, petulant, scolding State of The Union address. A caller to the Jay Severin show compared the Commander-in-Chief to Captain Queeg. An apt comparison in my eyes. It would have fit the tenor for Obama to reveal that Justice Alito also had keys to the strawberries.
There is something prescient about these overnight polls in that they predict where the White House will go from here. Axelrod and company probably realize that they have burnt bridges with most of the populace. It's likely too late for triangulation. From this point onward they will galvanize their base and use smear and scandal and power to insure that no opponent rises above the 45% or so approval rating that their guy enjoys. Preach to the choir and come off as the lesser of two evils to the independents.
I don't see Kumbaya in the near future.
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