From my column today:
There was a sudden change in Obama’s Virginia itinerary this week. The White House initially told local Democrats that the president’s bus tour would stop in four communities: Danville, Newport News, Fredericksburg, and Charlottesville.
To the White House, the cities represented friendly territory. In 2008, Obama carried Danville with 59 percent, Newport News with 64 percent, Fredericksburg with 64 percent, and Charlottesville with 78 percent. But Virginia has state legislative elections this year, and the initial Obama list coincided almost perfectly with a selection of incumbent Democrats who are desperate to distance themselves from the national party.
Read on here.
The only community organizer ever to ascend to this level is having trouble organizing a state he won just three years ago, where a popular former governor whom he tapped for party chairman is afraid to be seen with him.
And yet I keep hearing how he is a favorite to win re-election in a close race. I doubt that; I suspect that the best case scenario for Obama is to lose by a respectable margin, say 4% of the national vote and around twenty electoral votes. But a landslide for the Republican is certainly a possibility.
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