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November 08, 2007
Obama Getting Desperate
I read an article that talks about how Obama is taking the strategy that many troubled candidates take these days: Focus on Iowa. Analysts are predicting it is his best bet because he only trails Hillary by 3% in a recent pole taken there. This is a sharp contrast to the national pole numbers that show Hillary running away with the contest that people had predicted would be a fight to the finish. However, it still could be if Obama can pull off a miracle in Iowa.
Why is Iowa so important? I think the only easy answer is that it is the "traditionally" the first caucus and the first official test for anyone that wants to head to the White House. We can see now how serious people take this tradition when you look at all the fuss that has popped up after many states, including Michigan, passed bills to move their primary in front of Iowa's Caucus. This frankly angered me because I don't think that Iowa should get any special treatment. I mean what makes this state so important, and why should it have a larger say in deciding who becomes each party's nominee. If I had my way, I would make it so multiple states from different regions and different political leanings all had their primaries on the same first day. This would prevent any one state from being focused on to the point of political obsession.
Now I understand that Iowans are going to cry a river as wide as the Mississippi if this happens, but frankly all I can say is for them to suck it up. They are not special and they don't deserve special attention.
Back to Obama though, I think that with every day more people are starting to think that Obama should have waited to run for President. Before he ran everybody seemed to love him. He was the face of change that America loved to see. However, I think they loved to see it as a possible change, something in the back of everyone’s minds that we could look forward to. Now that he is running this year he has spoiled it. His message seems to get diluted by all the other big names in the Democratic race, mainly Clinton. Also being on the campaign trail as such a rookie has made him look dumb to a lot of people and someone that has fallen out of the minds of many Americans who have just come to accept that Hillary will be the Democratic nominee. Looks like Obama will have to wait another 4 years to be the candidate of change. Only problem is that now he has opened his ideas, and these ideas are likely to be pretty stale come 2012.
Posted by niemij at November 8, 2007 03:44 PM