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Jan 17, 2010 by News Gatherer
President Obama’s scheduled visit to the Bay State on account of Democratic candidate Martha Coakley today, a accomplishment bid planned suddenly by the White House last week afterwards Republican Scott Brown pulled even or ahead in some polls, will be a key analysis of the president’s adeptness to reenergize his dispirited party.
While many young voters imagined that an Obama presidency would mean a speedy closure of Guantanamo Bay prison, a wind-down of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a health affliction plan that would, at least, provide a government insurance plan to compete with the private sector, they instead are balked at the slow clip of change, Vastola and others said.
“There was this expectation that this was activity to be like a Hollywood movie. But it’s reality, it’s the world as it really is, not the fantasy.’’. “Does it accomplish me frustrated? It does. He was a candidate almost fictionalized from day one,’’ Boston-based Democratic political consultant Michael Goldman said of Obama.
The trend threatens to do austere damage to the Democrats this fall as they seek to hang assimilate their majorities in Congress. While a GOP takeover of either chamber of Congress seemed highly unlikely even a month ago, Democratic officials, abashed by developments in deep-blue Massachusetts, fear that Republicans could score big upsets this fall. With “tea party’’ activists and other conservatives eager to aperture their acrimony over Democratic policies, low Democratic turnout could be devastating to the majority party.
There’s a lot at pale in the acclamation in Massachusetts; there’s a lot at pale in what’s debated every day on Capitol Hill. There’s a lot at stake. What’s at pale is whether we’re activity to go forward with ideas for an economic recovery,’’ said White House columnist secretary Robert Gibbs. “I don’t know why some segments of political observers don’t seem to be as motivated.
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