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Here's the question that has obsessed more than a few political experts since the beginning of the presidential campaign: Why does Barack Obama consistently poll behind the generic Democrat in the 2008 race? What that means in regular speech is that when voters are asked whether they would prefer a Democrat or a Republican, the generic Democrat has scored as many as five points higher than Senator Obama does...
...pretensions to understanding indie music fans, the movie comes across as contrived and unemotional. Nick, played by Michael Cera of “Juno” and “Superbad” fame, is devastated after his girlfriend Tris (Alexis Dziena) breaks up with him. Being the generic emo-punk that he is, he makes her dozens of mix CDs with heart-rending titles such as—in one of the film’s best and most subtle jokes—“Road to Closure, Volume 12.” One of Tris?...
...bringing McCain in to help, the House GOP leaders may have done more damage to their members' electoral chances. When McCain gets a cold - Obama now holds his widest leads yet in many polls - his coattails get pneumonia. After trailing Democrats in generic matchups for most of the year, early last month Republicans started to catch up, coming within 3 percentage points of the Democrats in a CNN/Opinion Research poll. The latest poll, however, done Sept. 19-22 - after Paulson's emergency request but before the failed vote - shows the Democrats have widened that lead to 14 percentage points...
...Democratic Party is having one of its periodic freak-outs. John McCain has pulled ahead in a few polls, and the party's many doom-and-gloomers are fretting that Barack Obama is frittering away a can't-lose election, lagging behind generic Democrats in a generic Democratic year. They worry that he's too professorial, too nuanced, too dispassionate, too above-the-fray cool. They want him to run straight at McCain's distortions, throw some fastballs, show voters he's a scrapper. They fear that his message of change has grown stale, that his efforts to paint McCain...
...currency. I've already reported Obama's negative response to a New Hampshire voter who asked him to launch another Clintonesque national conversation about race: "All that self-flagellation, it's not useful. African Americans get all riled up, and whites get defensive." In a year when generic Democrats are trouncing generic Republicans and polls suggest that the domestic and foreign policies he supports are much more popular than McCain's, it's certainly not useful for Obama...