(l NP ) great speech Mr Obama

[David Morris]

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_09/025522.php

MAKING THE ENTHUSIASM GAP LESS ABSTRACT

Much has been written about how we reached this point, but Adam
Serwer's summary today sounds about right to me.

I'd chalk it up a few things: the administration and Democrats in
general being timid about defending themselves and their policies, a
general sense that key liberal priorities were compromised on or
abandoned, and the failure to get the economy moving again. What most
people are seeing and hearing is that Democratic Party leaders are
failing, which doesn't exactly make people want to come out and vote
for them, let alone make phone calls and knock on doors.