Dems not quite happy with “The One”?

The New York Observer makes the point that the reason that Obama can’t pull ahead in the polls is because Democrats have lost the fire in their belly;

It’s also probably a mistake to assume that all, or even most, of Clinton’s 18 million voters feel a sense of personal loyalty to her – and that, by extension, millions of votes will come flowing Obama’s way at the snap of his former opponent’s finger.

To be sure, many Clinton supporters are fanatically loyal to her…. But their loud noise and on-line activism can be very misleading, as Ron Paul’s supporters proved this year. The “PUMA” crowd represents some of Clinton’s 18 million voters, but their devotion is probably not representative of the attitudes of the 50 percent of Clinton voters not currently backing Obama.

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Clinton’s primary-season coalition certainly included its share of anti-Obama voters, those who don’t like the Illinois senator or those who didn’t think he’d make a strong fall candidate (or a strong president, for that matter). This didn’t mean they had warm feelings toward Clinton; only that they found her more palatable. Just as significantly, her campaign became the home for much of the old Democratic coalition – less-educated and lower-income white voters, senior citizens, Hispanics and women.

Wonkette translates;

Ever since Obama clinched the nomination, all the fun’s gone out of it. And so Clinton voters have by and large returned to their natural habitat, in front of the teevee, eating the last unpopped kernels of popcorn out of their microwave bags. If Hillary Clinton tells them to vote for Obama, they’ll all just say, “But that meerkat show is on Animal Planet,” and then they’ll go back to resentfully scrapbooking.

Of course, this could all be smoke and mirrors so the media can herald Obama’s defeat of the Democrats’ doldrums with his inspiring and historic speech to the 75,000 supporters (instead of the delegates) and declare his sudden 5-point jump next week proof that he can defeat McCain (and Putin and Il and Ahmadinejad and Chavez, et al.)

When Democrats start predicting the failure of their candidates in public, I get suspicious.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Liberals suck, Politics