The latest release of Pew’s weekly News Interest Index survey indicates that Americans are beyond sick and tired of hearing the name “Barack Obama” repeated constantly, over-and-over, with no reasonable pause.
Close to half (48%) of Pew’s interviewees went on to say that they have been hearing too much about Obama lately. And by a slight, but statistically significant margin – 22% to 16% – people say that recently they have a less rather than more favorable view of the putative Democratic nominee.
Yes, and 51-percent of Indie voters cannot bear the thought of him. Obama fatigue.
Overhyped and disliked, Obama soldiers on. And Alex Castellanos offers the bad news to the faithful over at Huffington Pillar-to-Post:
When this young man with the flowing, passionate core, when this candidate without the solid-center changes positions and transforms himself as we watch, it leaves Americans much more in doubt about who he is and how he would lead us. It also reveals an Obama of unapproachable arrogance and inestimable self-regard: He appears confident voters will appreciate his superiority regardless of where he journeys or what he becomes to meet his political ambitions.
What is going on?
Granted, it is not as bad for Barry as I intentionally made it sound. Surely, Americans do not feel Obama is as overexposed as is, say, Paris Hilton. She was Obama’s reference point in 2005, when Obama told the Washington Post:
“Andy Warhol said we all get our 15 minutes of fame,” says Barack Obama. “I’ve already had an hour and a half. I mean, I’m so overexposed, I’m making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.”
Again, according to the Pew survey, 51-percent of Indie voters say they’re sick of Obama. He cannot afford to lose these voters to John McCain.
But…
In contrast, if anything, Pew’s respondents said they want to hear more, not less about the Republican candidate. Just 26% in the poll said they had heard too much about McCain, while a larger number (38%) reported that they had heard too little about the putative Republican candidate.
Of course, McCain’s hot as “hot” – to borrow from Hilton’s verbiage – as Paris or Britney, or Lindsey or Claudia Jordan. (NOTE: I’ve no idea about Claudia Jordan. I went to TMZ.com to find the name of any celebrity girl, and hers was there.) Can hotness be turned into a political commodity? That, my friends, is David Axelrod’s challenge. He has to convince Americans that Obama is the ultimate product, the guy with whom football fans (NFL, not soccer) want to stage a policy debate. Getting the policy bit down and consistent will be only part of the battle.
I think Obama is still the clear frontrunner, but I think come the break of light on November 5th, John McCain is the only man whom voters will respect in the morning.
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Hmmm
horaceox (Diary) Wednesday, August 6th at 4:46PM EST (link)“Andy Warhol said we all get our 15 minutes of fame,” says Barack Obama. “I’ve already had an hour and a half. I mean, I’m so overexposed, I’m making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.”
Clearly Barack Obama is racist.
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The high road?
FrankLucia (Diary) Wednesday, August 6th at 4:51PM EST (link)Obama claims he’s taking the high road — then calls McCain “ignorant”.
Does Obama come off as “too cool for school”?
What gets me is...the media thinks that coverage = votes.
Mord (Diary) Wednesday, August 6th at 5:05PM EST (link)It turns out not to be so. I think the Old Media has a wee bit too high an opinion of themselves. Maybey the rubes in flyover country can actually read between the lines and don’t take Obama at face value?
I was watching Fox and they were talking about 48% of people say that they have heard too much about Obama. The Democratic mouthpiece dismissed this poll outright…it was funny. He actually said….”aaaahhh…I don’t think that’s true”. He was convinced that people wanted MORE Obama coverage, not less….after all, the media tells people what they should want to hear about, don’t they?
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"Molten ... flowing, passionate core" -- he's a lava lamp!
CincoSolas_del_Bronx (Diary) Wednesday, August 6th at 5:31PM EST (link)Colorful and interesting too. But most people figure out after a while that the “molten core” is just going to keep going up, and then down, and not, really, you know, do anything.
And as lava lamp fatigue sets in, here’s hoping that many will remember that a plain old 100-watt incandescent hanging from the ceiling does a whole lot better job chasing away the shadows in the corners.
Those dreading urbanization should remember that though the Kingdom of God first appeared in a temporal Garden, at the end of the book it is established in an eternal City. (paraphrase, James M. Boice)
soli Deo gloria
Does Obama
d55may Wednesday, August 6th at 5:41PM EST (link)Thats the problem with Obama he talks out of both sides of his mouth. Says only you want to hear, but says he’s telling you what you need to hear. The problem with this logic, he is telling us what e thinks is good for us, without anything to back it up.
He’s comfortable on the stump talking shit about John McCain, yet he won’t debate him. That makes me wonder what he would do if their was a ANOTHER TERRORIST problem. Bill Clinton just ignored it in the 90′s, then stuck Bush with the problem. I also want to say right now that ALL of us American’s should be proud of the job Bush did under the circumstances. He was the first Pres. to ever be attacked in two cities within minutes of each other. And may I remind you that one of those building was the Pentagon. I do not think that Obama can do the job because he can’t even hold on to his own core beliefs or stand up for his policies. Do we want a croward as the President, to stand in front of some of the most hardened terrorist’s on the planet and pander to them? The man has NO SPINE and he can not admit when he is wrong. These things have nothing to do with race notice. Vote McCain twice if you can. LOL
Denise
Pennsylvania
Mind language, please.
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55555
skorrent Wednesday, August 6th at 5:54PM EST (link)Lava lamp! I love it!
They're stuck in a pickle
RedFox84 Wednesday, August 6th at 6:31PM EST (link)People feel they don’t know enough about Obama, but the more the average voters hear about him, the less they like him and the less they want to hear about him.
Re: Fox
d55may Wednesday, August 6th at 6:54PM EST (link)I watch Fox too! the worst Channel is MSNBC. They are in the tank for Obama because they gave him a couple hundred thousand. He is also spending money on on advertising. CNN is just as guilty, I am disabled and in a wheel chair, so I watch the news all day. I have sat for the last year and watched the media form and sel Obama. The pundits sit in front of the camera and have sessions about what they can do to get him out of trouble. Its shameful, this is a complete abuse of the first amendment. The media to to inform the public in a bi-partian way, so that American’s can make informed decisions. Journalism is dead and so is news honest coverage. So just as the man said, Obama changes and that just is not CHANGE I CAN BELIEVE IN.
Denise
Pennsylvania
Keep it up Media Folks
phxg (Diary) Wednesday, August 6th at 7:09PM EST (link)All I can say is give us Obama live 24/7 from now till November. He’d be lucky to get 10 electoral votes.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. –Aristotle
mC
2468bjb Wednesday, August 6th at 7:38PM EST (link)FACT:John McCain is a whore politician accepting millions from ExxonMobil so they can continue exploiting Americans at the pump. Its treasonous.
BJB
Remember, folks: Obama supporter.
Moe Lane (Diary) Wednesday, August 6th at 7:42PM EST (link)NT
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Sometimes I think I am crazy to be conservative.
Mord (Diary) Wednesday, August 6th at 7:59PM EST (link)Thanks, you just convinced me I’m not crazy.
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Oh let me taste your tears, Oh, the tears of unfathomable sadness! My-yummy! My-yummy
Darin_H (Diary) Wednesday, August 6th at 8:01PM EST (link)Tell me sparky, does it hurt you that Obama voted for the Energy Bill that had tax breaks for ExxonMobil and McCain voted against it?
No, that was rhetorical, we know it hurts. I laugh at your pain.
A visionary coward says that anger can be power, as long as there’s a victim on TV – Flat Top, Goo Goo Dolls
The thing I like about this platform...
Mark Kilmer (Diary) Wednesday, August 6th at 8:04PM EST (link)is the ease with which such insects can be squished, or with which I can find that the master exterminator beat me to it.
Heh, does sound like one of those liberal
dbecraft Wednesday, August 6th at 8:05PM EST (link)kooks that continue to interrupt with their asinine (can you say scripted) statements. Oh well, it is fun to watch them though…
One of these days, I do expect them to grow up and realize that they to need gasoline to drive to work and maybe change their position… Not waiting for it though…
I say that we all use bicycles and forgo the energy crises… What say you 2468bjb?
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Well, I for one was looking forward to a
dbecraft Wednesday, August 6th at 8:06PM EST (link)unreasonable debate…heh! You have ruined it for all…
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Weird. I posted a cleanup comment, and it shows up in "My Comments" but not the diary.
NightTwister (Diary) Wednesday, August 6th at 8:25PM EST (link)And the link to my comment goes right back to My Diary.
Weird bugs here in 3.0…
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Not a serious bug really
Neil Stevens (Diary) Wednesday, August 6th at 8:29PM EST (link)But it is yet another failure of our consultants: When you delete a diary, its comments remain.
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You just didn't have enough planning meetings.
NightTwister (Diary) Wednesday, August 6th at 8:39PM EST (link)The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill
You're eliminating all of our fun...
dbecraft Wednesday, August 6th at 8:44PM EST (link)Again…
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Speaking of Bugs
SteveLA (Diary) Wednesday, August 6th at 8:49PM EST (link)Neil
The widget server, cn.gigy.com something or the other, when it tries to push widgets to my Firefox browser will crash FF about 90 percent of the time. Hmmm looking at my status bar right now, Transferring data from couters.gigya.com is stuck right now. Something not right about using gigya services I’d guess.
It’s my work computer, heavy duty firewalls, so maybe something about that, but pain in the seating section of my body.
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Competency over ideological purity and litmus tests
Steve, I think that it may be related to you work
dbecraft Wednesday, August 6th at 8:54PM EST (link)computer, I use FireFox exclusively and have had no problems. Of course that does not have any real meaning, but thought I would add my 2 cents worth…
I would suspect that it would be activity related, or maybe firewall…or maybe some other protective services on your system.
Formally known as Deagle… “Golf is a way of life…”
Enough is enough
jkotzur Wednesday, August 6th at 8:58PM EST (link)I had to stop watching CNN for a while because it was so much Obama.
Probably right
SteveLA (Diary) Wednesday, August 6th at 9:01PM EST (link)dbecraft
Probably right, but thought I would bring it to Neil’s attention.
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Competency over ideological purity and litmus tests
same old story-known liberals lose every time
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Wednesday, August 6th at 9:11PM EST (link)and will this time
What our goal should be is to make sure our guys use their air time to point out on air that liberalism is what is being rejected and not the let the msm go uncontested as they try and out the defeat of Obama off on a debate moment or an ad or racism of Americans.
Nothing matters more to the left MSM TV than that liberalism not be publicly discredited and that the election be seen as turning on what happens on TV.
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Check (nt)
Neil Stevens (Diary) Wednesday, August 6th at 9:29PM EST (link)RS contributing editor, technical administrator, and “a hardy variety of crabgrass.”
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Actually, no
wennejunk (Diary) Wednesday, August 6th at 9:30PM EST (link)The media (free press) can pretty much do what they want and have no obligation to be fair, balanced or anything else along those lines (Witness NYT rejection of McCain’s editorial).
The problem arises when they are partisan but try and convince themselves and the public that they are not.
Still not illegal, just hypocritical and self defeating as the consumer is turning elsewhere for their news.
You would think responsibility to their shareholders would rank somewhere near the top of their priorities and compel them to create a product people want, but apparently not.
Just as long as we don’t bail them out when they fail like the mortgage banks.
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ -C. S. Lewis
Mercy, that's right and it is unfortunate
dbecraft Wednesday, August 6th at 9:41PM EST (link)that the Media has given up the right to factual news and have become publicists of the parties (Democratic party). Although I think that it will eventually catch up to them, they only need a decade or so and they seem to be well on their way.
Hope we survive this one-sided view.
Formally known as Deagle… “Golf is a way of life…”
Not Only "Obama Fatigue"
Whitehorse (Diary) Wednesday, August 6th at 10:44PM EST (link)But also his & his campaign’s own fatigue. They look tired of explaining the flip-flops and “changes” from Obama. Axelrod’s performance on the “Today” show last Friday was sputteringly poor.
Obama could never put Hillary away during the primaries, & performed more poorly the longer the primaries went on contested. The supers put him over – however, there are no super-delegates for the general election.
True, the more he talks & is out there the more people are wary. Does he mean what he says now or said then? McCain did a great job getting out in front on the drilling issue & cogently explaining why he changed his mind. Cogent explanations for “change” are not coming from Obama’s campaign.
I had the same issue
CV_Gas (Diary) Thursday, August 7th at 9:49AM EST (link)Sorry for the threadjack… I had the same issue and appealed to Neil who recommended shutting off the flash add-on. His genius advice solved the problem. Hope that helps.
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Oh is this the same issue? huh (nt)
Neil Stevens (Diary) Thursday, August 7th at 10:24AM EST (link)RS contributing editor, technical administrator, and “a hardy variety of crabgrass.”
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Yes, when I
CV_Gas (Diary) Thursday, August 7th at 10:39AM EST (link)followed your advice, the issue went away. When I tried to post, however, the handy dandy tag buttons went away, so I turned the javascript back on and the Firefox browser still worked. Interestingly enough, I left the settings on Safari where they were, and it still crashes. Hope that helps.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing – Edmund Burke
Annoy a liberal – work hard and enjoy life
I AM Joe the Plumber