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When we peel back the fear and look at the numbers, both electoral and economic, your breathing will return to normal.
Romney's surge in momentum is real, but Obama remains the favorite.
It has been so long since Democrats felt even a scintilla of electoral despair that the slightest taste of it was frightening enough to make them look like they were in Edvard Munch's "The Scream."
Before Denver, Dems had grown complacent.
Now, just as Palin can see Russia from her house, Dems can supposedly see the abyss of defeat from where they sit.
This is soul-rattling in a monumentally important election.
What's on the table?
Only the future of health care, entitlements, a woman's right to choose, tax fairness, a possible attack on Iran and the composition of the Supreme Court for the next few decades.
With all that at stake, to see Obama be so weak and passive as Romney danced behind his lectern like a kid who'd just had sugar for the first time - while he wildly misstated his own policies, pretending to be moderate as if that kid was also being on his intellectual best behavior in front of company - well, all that was a shock to the system.
So the media narrative shifted from "Romney's losing" to "Obama choked," and even Jon Stewart stopped dissing Romney and spent whole segments making fun of Obama.
Given all that, Obama had never needed Biden as much as he did this week.
Delaware Joe arrived, like your favorite uncle to your July 4 barbecue: bearing tons of red meat.
At the debate he repeatedly called Ryan, and by extension Romney, a liar and several times brought up the 47% meme, which is not a Romney gaffe but established conservative dogma.
He lanced Ryan like a boil...
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/worry-article-1.1182605#ixzz29IF1Toh7
Romney's surge in momentum is real, but Obama remains the favorite.
It has been so long since Democrats felt even a scintilla of electoral despair that the slightest taste of it was frightening enough to make them look like they were in Edvard Munch's "The Scream."
Before Denver, Dems had grown complacent.
Now, just as Palin can see Russia from her house, Dems can supposedly see the abyss of defeat from where they sit.
This is soul-rattling in a monumentally important election.
What's on the table?
Only the future of health care, entitlements, a woman's right to choose, tax fairness, a possible attack on Iran and the composition of the Supreme Court for the next few decades.
With all that at stake, to see Obama be so weak and passive as Romney danced behind his lectern like a kid who'd just had sugar for the first time - while he wildly misstated his own policies, pretending to be moderate as if that kid was also being on his intellectual best behavior in front of company - well, all that was a shock to the system.
So the media narrative shifted from "Romney's losing" to "Obama choked," and even Jon Stewart stopped dissing Romney and spent whole segments making fun of Obama.
Given all that, Obama had never needed Biden as much as he did this week.
Delaware Joe arrived, like your favorite uncle to your July 4 barbecue: bearing tons of red meat.
At the debate he repeatedly called Ryan, and by extension Romney, a liar and several times brought up the 47% meme, which is not a Romney gaffe but established conservative dogma.
He lanced Ryan like a boil...
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/worry-article-1.1182605#ixzz29IF1Toh7
