Reading The Tea Leaves

Maybe Karl Rove will work for Obama and give America four more years of the chosen one. After all, the Obama Administration has more in common with The Bush Administration than it would have with an administration headed by Michelle Bachmann. And we know how much The Arcitect loathes Tea Party candidates.

It is going to take a political genius to resurrect the career of Barack Hussein Obama. I am no Scott Rasmussen but I do have my own indicators.
Indiactor # 1: Blog/web site commentary. Skip the conservative/rightist/tea party sites. Go to Yahoo or some other nominally impartial web site. The commentary that follows the news articles (usually AP fed) are overwhelmingly anti-Obama. A constant questioning of the man's values, his intellect as well as the intellect of his followers. Try it.

Next, go to an obvious partisan site like HuffPo. Even there, fawning pieces about the miraculous one are met with the more than occasional "cut the crap," "give it a rest" kind of comment. The loyalists are still the majority at most of these sites but their ratios are shrinking fast.

Even NPR has encountered a voice of dissention.


Here is a blog that makes fun of birthers. The only commnet supports birthers and considers the term derogatory. They also state that Obama is ineligible for POTUS for three seperate reasons.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/05/31/jerome-corsis-wheres-the-birth-certificate-why-birthers-wont-die.html?cid=hp:beastoriginalsR3

And no, there is not a lot of spamming at these sites. Most comments are unique and reference an original article.

Indicator #2. Obama's High Water Mark Was 2008.

George Bush lost the popular vote in 2000 but won the electoral vote. In 2004, he picked up 12 million more voters, won both the popular and electoral vote and even won by a majority. There were public figures who did not publicly support him in 2000 but supported him in 2004. Zeb Miller, Ron Silver and Dennis Miller to name a few. People I knew personally voted for Bush in 2004 but not 2000. Bush improved his popularity in his first term.

Not so Obama. I have yet to hear one voice chortle "I did not vote for Obama in 08, but by golly I am going to support him in 2012." Not once. Nothing like that. And I hear people on TV and on radio say in essence " I vote for him last time but never again." I don't see that he has won over any new recruits. If he has, they are invisible.

Indicator #3: The Continued Slide of the Pro-Obama Media.

I don't know how much longer the networks can fund news (Fox notwithstanding.) If nothing else, there will be more Courics and their behemoth salaries tossed overboard. But when Fox has the 13 top cable news shows and their 3 AM time slot outdraws their rivals prime time players...And how much longer can NYT continue? Or "The Boston Globe?" Ohhh that bad ole Internet be takin our lunch money again. The only leftist news outlet that has held its own is NPR and it might just get defunded.

It looks bad for the inflated one. But then again, I didn't think he had a chance in 2008. He and Karl Rove might prove us wrong when the votes are counted.