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Obama’s Hubris Will be His Undoing

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 24th, 2012 at 11:26 AM  | 

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Barack Obama has lost North Carolina and Florida.

His ground game is at near parity in early voting with the GOP, the GOP is more energized, and he is going to lose both.

But he will not stop spending money in those two states and redirect the resources to Ohio, which is now a must win state for him. He will not do it because he does not want news stories to come out in the last two weeks of the campaign that he’s closing up show in two battleground states.

That would convey weakness and demoralize the base.

But they are losing. And in fact, in North Carolina, they are winding down slowly and quietly knowing the GOP has matched their early voting operation and will get people to the polls.

The Obama camp does not want any news stories to come out. They know if they are too open about their plans the GOP will get very loud about the Obama team’s retreat across the map, and the media will be forced to cover the retreat to save face. So they will continue spending some resources in states they cannot win to avoid news stories they find more damaging.

In the meantime, Mitt Romney keeps creeping up with more momentum in Colorado, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Ohio.

Time is running out. Barack Obama’s hubris prevents him from making critical, necessary decisions as the sand runs out of the hourglass.

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  • http://jeffemanuel.net Jeff Emanuel

    Hence the first Billion Dollar Campaign’s need to take a $15,000,000.00 rescue loan from Bank of America in the last month of the campaign. While OFA and its surrogates claim that they always expected the race to go down to the wire like it is, the fact they’ve blown through their billion and are relegated to taking out loans for more shows pretty clearly that they expected to have this thing sewn up by now and are shocked not to be running away with reelection.

  • Viet71

    Reminds me of Paulus and the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad.

    The battle was lost, and Hitler wouldn’t let him retreat.

    One good thing: after surrender, Paulus turned on Hitler.

    Maybe after the final battle this year, the country will be treated to some mouthy Dems turning on Obama.

  • bk

    “The Obama camp does not want any news stories to come out. They know if they are too open about their plans …” That sounds like Obama’s approach to pretty much everything for the past four years.

  • fightnright

    Obamites can scramble to prettify the campaign narrative now, but lipstick looks worse on a rotting pig. The campaign team is trying to save themselves and their careers from a sinking ship. It’s BHO’s legacy which will ultimately suffer from these phony machinations.

    Obama’s record has already produced nothing but lies, rationalizations, finger-pointing and excuses. I can only imagine what an ugly read his last memoir will be.

  • westcoastpatriette

    This is one time when Obama’s leading from behind leadership style is working in our favor.

    Go ahead and waste your money to save face. Obama. You’re losing and will never catch up now. Hahaha.

  • westcoastpatriette

    That’ll be sweet to watch.

  • alabamared

    Is it hubris or a tactical decision? Your entire article indicates that the President’s campaign is spending (fruitless) resources in those states in order to avert a narrative of losing. That seems to make sense to me. I’d expect Romney’s campaign to do the same thing at this late stage.

    But your title and your last sentence claim that the President’s personal “hubris” is preventing his campaign from efficiently re-allocating resources. I see no support for that assertion in your article. And, in fact, it seems to contradict the idea that the inefficient allocation actually represents a “least-bad-option” tactical decision made by the campaign.

    I guess I just don’t quite understand your post.

  • ctredstater

    if Obama thought about these kinds of things, pulling out of a state could hurt Dems in close Senate races. Thus staying in Florida makes some sense. North Carolina less so. Pass the popcorn.

  • http://travismonitor.blogspot.com Freedoms Truth

    NC has been lost to Obama for months. you cant say that about Iowa or Nevada. in fact, Obama may win Nevada and lose the election.

  • streiff

    I don’t care much about Obama. I would like to see Susan Rice prosecuted. I’d like to see everyone in Energy who touched Solyndra and A123 and about 25 other loans fired and a lot of them prosecuted. I’d like to see every swinging richard in the DoJ Office of Civil Rights disbarred and a lot of them jailed. I’d like for every NSC staffer who leaked stuff to make Obama look good prosecuted.

  • balfk

    I’m looking forward to e-mailing this post back to you on 7 November, when Obama defeats Romney in the election. That’s what confuses me. You don’t even like Romney. I guess it comes down to “who I hate less.” Oh well. I’ll still enjoy rubbing this moment in your face (please feel free to rub it in mine if I turn out to be wrong).