Tuesday, January 19, 2010

So many are shocked Brown won, calling it an "epic upset" Umm okay...

The signs were there for anyone paying attention that Brown was going to win. See the below post as an example and even the earlier comments from Axelrod...

Meanwhile, in an interview with reporters today, White House senior adviser David Axelrod noted there were "local issues at play" in Massachusetts and complimented Brown's team for running "a very clever campaign."

He said Mr. Obama did all he could for Coakley.

"The White House did everything we were asked to do," Axelrod said, the Baltimore Sun reports. "I think if we had been asked earlier, we would have responded earlier."

Now the typical, "OMG this proves Obama is a failure!" Which is not really the issue, no matter how many times they would have trotted Obama out to Mass, if you run a bad campaign? You usually lose. It's that simple...

So for all of those calling this an "epic upset" -- I'm not sure which campaign they were watching. The "epic upset" would have been if Martha Coakley won...

1 comment:

Robin said...

I agree, it had nothing to do with Obama. It was all on Coakley.

I also want to mention that I would be highly resentful if they were to bring Obama or anyone else out to try to convince me to vote for someone.

It seems to me that Coakley was very lazy with her campaign. Either she depended too much on the traditional way people vote in that state or she really didn't want to win.

I'm under the impression that since Brown won, a whole bunch of Democrats are breathing a sigh of relief over this health care bill that they have been working on. Now they have an excuse if it doesn't go through.

Anyway...Obama ran on change. Having a Republican in that seat is definitely a change.