Invisible mojo.

phantom mojo

because if there's one thing Americans care about more than anything else, is how much everything is costing them.  John McBush said that the economy is NOT his strong suit.  I laugh aloud every time I think about that priceless, YouTube moment.  

Phantom mojo!

Obama may still be able to win in the Midwest but I don't think he is as strong a candidate as Clinton there. Plus, in recent months, he has not won a majority of the votes. (He did at the beginning.)

Right on.  Let's put pathetic old geezer McCain throught the tumble dry cycle!

For some reason, I REALLY want to give you phantom mojo for such a nice comment.  The diarist has become a hero of mine.

I'd be less worried if Obama wasn't so afraid of debates.

I'm loving it!

Hard to send a concern troll packing when he runs the site....

I have no idea why he doesn't like the bill.

Because Bush doesn't like the bill.

I think we'll see McCain's strategy when he picks his VP.  My bet is that it'll be Romney.

McCain's lurching to the left on some issues to try to meet Obama halfway--witness his recent talk about global warming, bipartisanship, and his purge of the lobbyists.  He'll try to stick to the right on foreign policy, as his recent hammering of Obama on those issues indicates.  His problem is that the right-most wing of the Republican party hates him because they see him as a traitor to the cause for his willingness to reach out.  

Now, I think he's just tone-deaf enough to select Romney as a sop to the hard right.  McCain will want Romney to be the young face of his campaign, with the fundraising apparatus of the Movement people (ie those interests represented by NRO, Weekly Standard, etc).  He'll send Romney to appeal to the hard-righters who are threatening to sit out, so McCain himself can continue to position himself as a maverick centrist.

The problem is that the right smoked out Romney's phoniness long ago.  They don't buy his bullshit any more than Dems do.  Watch them freak out when he doesn't pick Huckabee or another evangelical--to his credit, McCain's got no interest in playing that Christianist game.  I think it's a strategy that's going to hamstring him in the fall--he can't win without the Rove base, and that base doesn't trust him or Romney.

I'm hoping for a pickup where I'm moving to, in VA-5, with Tom Periello. Goode needs to be gone. He's the one who insisted Obama took the oath of office for Senate on a Koran.

FYI, this is an old meme that Clinton was attacked with too:

THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Governor Criticizes Process That's Turning to Clinton
By MICHAEL DECOURCY HINDS,
Published: April 24, 1992
THE NEW YORK TIMES

With Pennsylvania's primary only days away, the state's Democratic Governor today criticized his party's Presidential primary process -- and its likely nominee, Bill Clinton -- saying the process had produced a front-runner who could not win. He urged the party's uncommitted delegates to remain neutral so that a stronger nominee could be selected at the convention this summer.

"We have to recognize reality," Gov. Robert P. Casey said in an interview today. "The primary process is not producing someone who has a good crack at winning in November." Pennsylvania Democrats hold their primary next Tuesday.

Referring to low turnouts in earlier primaries, Governor Casey said, "We've got a tiny minority of Democrats voting for Bill Clinton, and he's winning every race without generating any sparks, any enthusiasm, any momentum."

Things are coming together.  Have you noticed that there's less petty insults (cult, kool aid, obamatons, etc.) being flung at us lately?  A few exceptions, of course, but the atmosphere seems to be less immaturely hostile.

Unfortunately, I think BPK is about right here.

Speaking as an Ohioan that comes from a large extended family of immigrants/ first generation, union member, church every Sunday folk (read: Reagan Democrats), I think Senator Obama has significant problems in Ohio.

We continue to discount how important the Wright scandal really is.  While recognizing that the polling suggests minimal impact, Wright creates some second order issues.

For example, count me as a Democrat of faith who loved this:

Figuring their joint appearance at an Orange County evangelical church finally put the shoe on the other foot, Brownback turned to Obama and said, "Welcome to my house." The audience of evangelicals howled with laughter. But when Obama had the chance to speak a few minutes later, he returned to what Brownback had said: "There is one thing I've got to say, Sam: This is my house, too. This is God's house."

It was great to see a Democrat who could speak comfortably and authentically about faith issues.  Rev. Wright sorta wrecked that.  It would have gone a long way towards winning Ohio.

Bittergate and Wright came out AFTER Ohio. I've seen no polling showing either of those issues causing lasting damage to Obama. It's probably allowed people who didn't like him in the first place to have an excuse to vote against him. But I doubt anybody who liked him before now dislikes him over it.

Of course, the big issue will be re-introducing Obama in the general election in areas that ignored before. He completely ignored southeast Ohio. He needs to do a town-by-town up-close-and-comfortable tour from Portsmouth on up to near Wheeling. He'll win a lot of votes that way. He did it in Iowa. And he probably lessened his margin of defeat in PA that way too.

"Singlehandedly ruined his February momentum" ??

You mean the momentum that will culminate in 2 weeks with the votes to become nominee?

Read the post up above where I include the April 1992 story run by The New York Times.  BPK80 is just playing old lines and has been a devote Clinton supporter for sometime.

Remember what Governor Casey said about Clinton in 1992 "Referring to low turnouts in earlier primaries, Governor Casey said, ""We have to recognize reality," Gov. Robert P. Casey said in an interview today. "The primary process is not producing someone who has a good crack at winning in November."