The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that obama has spent 20% more in each of the last two months than his campaign has taken in. Combine this with the results of the CBS News - New York Times poll released on Thursday, and you have the reason that many obama supporters have that sick "it's slipping away" feeling this Monday morning. Even as suddenly sobered mainstream publications downplayed obama's visit with the families and victim's of the Colorado Movie Massacre - a real damned if you do and damned if you don't moment for obama - supporters told WSJ that the campaign has spent too much and began a bludgeoning campaign against Romney too early to be able to keep it up until November. What's worse for obama is the information to be gained in the CBS Times poll. For the first time ever the poll showed Romney in the lead. But it was the so-called "inside" numbers that has petrified obama loyalists: his overall favorability rating amongst independents has slipped to a rock-bottom 28%.
Think that one through: less than 3 in 10 independent voters participating in the poll had a favorable view of obama. Folks, this is the CBS Times poll, one that will never be viewed as tilting right. Even worse - if that is possible in later July of an election year - the people who took the poll conceded that it was skewed 6.5% in favor of democrats. Do not ask me to explain how they justify that. The only thing I take from the 6.5 percent admission is that the poll - paid for by two organizations that virtually admit to being obama functionaries - is jacked up in favor of the left by some factor of 6.5 to compensate for something. What that something is is quite irrelevant. I won't agree that it was justified or accurate. In the defense of the poll takers, they tell you they are doing it and "explain" why. What the rest of the electorate needs to know is that if - despite all the prestidigitation - Romney has still catapulted ahead of obama than it is clear Romney is gaining momentum while obama support is dwindling and doing so in a train station marked for the "downbound" run.
Romney is about to embark on a foreign tour that cannot help obama. He is so weak on foreign policy that all Romney has to do is avoid a Gerald Ford type of screw-up (remember the debate between President Ford and soon-to-be President Carter when Ford pronounced that Poland was not behind the Iron Curtain?) Obama has his supporters holding their breath and praying that all of his anti-Israeli rhetoric during his term doesn't come back to haunt him. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was stepping gingerly with Chris Wallace on Fox on Sunday as Wallace sought to get him to admit what many suspect is a preference for Romney. I really don't think Mr. Netanyahu has any profound or singular admiration for the Governor; with the PM, anybody to the right of obama would do fine.
For Mr. Netanyahu, the real challenge was to avoid any extra inadvertent trashing of obama. He succeeded as only he could: there was nothing for obama supporters to latch onto while at the same time ensuring that no one would believe for a second that Mr. Netanyahu actually likes obama. He noted for the record that obama has said publicly that he supports Israel and has been told nothing to the contrary in private. I know that made me feel a lot better.
Mr. Netanyahu also noted that obama has stated publicly that for Iran to acquire nuclear capabilities is not an acceptable development. Obama has also said his administration will not conduct a policy of containment with a nuclear-armed Iran. The flash point there - that is, the day that Iran will have the bomb absent some kind of intervention, be it by military intervention or diplomatic treaty - could be as little as a month away, the Israeli PM said. On that day, the United States will have to fish or cut bait. If obama is still in charge?
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