Obama Leaves Charlotte With A Strong Hand
A strong position despite a bad economy. “Romney would have to change the basic contours of the race to win,” says Jordan.
Ben Smith BuzzFeed Staff
Zeke Miller BuzzFeed Staff
Posted Sep 6, 2012 11:43pm EDT
CHARLOTTE, NC — Barack Obama leaves the Democratic National Convention here with a commanding position in the race for president, leaving his Republican foe to hope that a meticulously staged three-day campaign event cannot overshadow a weak American economy.
The Democratic National Convention, energized by party soldiers’ genuine affection for the first black president, accomplished what a cooler, well-staged Republican National Convention in Tampa did not: It broke through. Bill Clinton’s discursive, 50-minute Wednesday speech was watched by more people than the Cowboys-Giants game.
And the president used Clinton’s base to lean into his second term with a workmanlike and programmatic speech, and to offer the contrast and the detail that will be the focus of the fall campaign.
“You will face the clearest choice of any time in a generation,” Obama said of the November election. “Over the next few years, big decisions will be made in Washington, on jobs and the economy; taxes and deficits; energy and education; war and peace – decisions that will have a huge impact on our lives and our children’s lives for decades to come.”
The convention’s momentum, and Obama’s address, left members of his party more confident of his reelection than they have been at any time since the summer of 2009. It was a dynamic that left many Democrats, who had expected Obama to spend the summer and fall battling desperately against poor economic indicators, marveling at the progress of his campaign.
(More here.)
Ben Smith BuzzFeed Staff
Zeke Miller BuzzFeed Staff
Posted Sep 6, 2012 11:43pm EDT
CHARLOTTE, NC — Barack Obama leaves the Democratic National Convention here with a commanding position in the race for president, leaving his Republican foe to hope that a meticulously staged three-day campaign event cannot overshadow a weak American economy.
The Democratic National Convention, energized by party soldiers’ genuine affection for the first black president, accomplished what a cooler, well-staged Republican National Convention in Tampa did not: It broke through. Bill Clinton’s discursive, 50-minute Wednesday speech was watched by more people than the Cowboys-Giants game.
And the president used Clinton’s base to lean into his second term with a workmanlike and programmatic speech, and to offer the contrast and the detail that will be the focus of the fall campaign.
“You will face the clearest choice of any time in a generation,” Obama said of the November election. “Over the next few years, big decisions will be made in Washington, on jobs and the economy; taxes and deficits; energy and education; war and peace – decisions that will have a huge impact on our lives and our children’s lives for decades to come.”
The convention’s momentum, and Obama’s address, left members of his party more confident of his reelection than they have been at any time since the summer of 2009. It was a dynamic that left many Democrats, who had expected Obama to spend the summer and fall battling desperately against poor economic indicators, marveling at the progress of his campaign.
(More here.)
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