Obama Sinks as Expected

Some are trying to explain why Obama is basically tied with McCain this far out before the election, something that should NOT surprise anybody who has been carefully and skeptically watching this joke of a race unfold.

It really has nothing to do with Obama's "lurch" to the right or to the "center." That explanation tends to overstate how much "liberal" or "progressive" support there is out there in the real world. It also perpetuates the false notion Obama was EVER a "liberal" or a "progressive." He never was. The drop has to do with more and more "vetting" of this guy (not that there is a lot, but what there is certainly isn't flattering to him), less support from Democrats upset over how the campaign was conducted and resolved, and frankly, with Obama's own problems shifting positions all over the place trying to be all things to all people and making nobody happy in the process. Fewer and fewer people know what this guy stands for, and the few who can make out what he stands for don't trust him one bit.

From the beginning I knew this would happen. When there were polls in Massachusetts months before the general election, the only state McGovern carried in 1972, showing a statistical tie between Obama and McCain, I knew beyond any doubt (and I knew it anyway) Obama had no shot at being president. It was basically over. Hell, the general election for Democrats was over when Edwards was forced out in late January.

Obama has nowhere to go but down in the polls. I expect McCain to win in a landslide, just the way Republicans and the media have wanted it. But they wouldn't have gone anywhere if Democrats, especially the party bigwigs, didn't get behind this loser.

The question is why Democrats are deliberately throwing this election when there were far superior candidates to get behind this campaign.

(H/T to Cannonfire for the poll and the Digby link.)