Obama Presses the Flesh
New polling will come out Monday evening. I think that will give us an early indication of how this race is going. With the lapel pins, Bosnia, bitter-gate and now, Bill Ayers, it is unclear how all of this will play out. I personally believe that Senator Barack Obama has made significant inroads into the Independents while Senator Hillary Clinton has locked up the traditional democrats. Obama has signed up tens of thousands of Blacks and new, young voters. If Obama is going to be close, he will need this group to come out in force. We’ll see if it works on Tuesday.
Oh, let me address a point a friend of mine brought up. He doesn’t think that the Bill Ayers thing is any big deal, but he believes that the steady drip of information (ie: bogus information) coming out will drive left-leaning Republicans away from Obama. My answer is that if that is the case, then I’m not sure how “left-leaning” those Republicans were. Obama has carefully balanced most of his plans (health care, economic policy, Iraq War, national security, etc.) so that there is something in them for everyone. Even conservatives can like some of them. Obama’s job is to convince Americans that he can keep us safe and protect our individual freedoms. If he is able to do that, then all of the rest of this stuff will go away because it isn’t important. I don’t think that any of this stuff influences how Obama makes decisions.
