NYT Brooks editorial about Obama as hard to place therefore not polling landslide

[dogindia]

Brooks is conservative. Any take on this editorial?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/05/opinion/05brooks.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1217966424-WtcblQa8/9AhP4IkEHApsA


Why isn’t Barack Obama doing better? Why, after all that has happened, does he have only a slim two- or three-point lead over John McCain, according to an average of the recent polls? Why is he basically tied with his opponent when his party is so far ahead?

His age probably has something to do with it. So does his race. But the polls and focus groups suggest that people aren’t dismissive of Obama or hostile to him. Instead, they’re wary and uncertain.

And the root of it is probably this: Obama has been a sojourner. He opened his book “Dreams From My Father” with a quotation from Chronicles: “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers.”

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[marylanddem]

1. Brooks is just another establishment stooge

pretending to be a journalist.

[Merlot]

2. Well, even he's admitting that mccain is a bad candidate

n/t

[kurtboss]

3. Dems Shouldn't Ignore Brooks

Brooks is a thinker. More than that, he keeps his finger on the pulse of the voting class. Bobos in Paradise is a good place to start with Brooks and probably gives you the best inclination why not all on the left revile him or all on the right embrace him.

Brooks was right when he encouraged Obama to run a couple years back...so I'd just like people to think about what he says.

He's not alwas right, no one is. And his views on the voting class are biased to the right and a little too elite in and of themselves (media metacriticism).

To answer him...the landslide is still likely to come. If McCain wins this it will be a near miracle. All the same, Obama was hammered last week and had little answer. Of course, much of that is the finicky media who disliked the careful control of Obama...the boring, near gaffe-free, campaign. And everyone wants a race, the cable shows and bloggers have to talk about something.

[FrenchieCat]

5. Yeah....right. Let's listen to Brooks, cause he knows nothing.

He still reading off of the "the attacks are working" GOP memo he got last week.

[book_worm]

4. But in 1980 another "change election" Reagan wasn't polling much better than Obama until the last

weekend when the flood gates opened.