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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (2411)	7/19/2007 5:08:49 PM
From: RMF	Respond to of 149317

At this point in 2003, the handicappers were all moving onto the Dean "bandwagon" and saying very much the same things about him that they are saying about Obama. By October that year Dean was being called a "lock" by many. But, then it came to the actual voting and people started thinking, "Can this guy actually win in the general election?", and Dean was done. Obama could end up being completely different, but so far he seems to be in a worse position than Dean ever was. Dean was at least "talking" about things that might be unpopular, like "raising taxes" to balance the budget, but so far Obama hasn't offered much of anything besides "change" and "I'll solve everything by being different". If the guy had more background and we knew how he would probably handle things if he got the job it would be different, but the voters of Iowa and New Hampshire have a LONG history of dissecting candidates and the polls show that they haven't seen a "clear cut" definition of what an Obama Presidency would mean.