Obama is still in trouble with Hillary voters
Barak Obama is in bad shape, and he should be concerned. First of all, Hillary Clinton showed in her speech on Tuesday night exactly why she would have been a formidable opponent to John McCain. The audience of Democrats in the Pepsi Center in Denver were loud and highly supportive. You could sense a strong connection between Hillary and the crowd. One came away from the speech wondering if the strongest audience response of the entire Democrat convention had just happened. Thursday night will need to be a barn-burner for Obama, or he is sunk with this crowd.
The second reason is exemplified by the reaction of the Clinton delegate in the video below. This is a clear example of how many in the Democrat party seem to feel about the nomination process and its end result. And this sentiment is clearly showing itself in the polls. With McCain and Obama drawing closer in the polls during Obama’s nominating convention and the disappearance of the gender gap, Barak Obama seems to have no foundation. And this convention is not causing the cement to harden. A key ingredient for him is clearly missing
UPDATE: Maureen Dowd captures the “anxiety” undertow at the DNC.
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A reaction from a single delegate, who may or may not be a Republican plant — this is justification for a story?
And what polls are speaking about? Most of even the formerly respectable poll groups (e.g Pew, Gallup) have been discredited because they can’t reach cell phone users, who make up most of Obama’s base.