Excitement wins
In my lifetime, Bill Clinton had it. Hillary didn’t. Obama had it for miles. Al Gore, John Kerry, Dukakis, & Mondale didn’t. Bernie has it. Koubuchar and Biden don’t. Pete may not have it, but at least sees the importance of trying to get it.
In spite of the fact that he is deeply, DEEPLY, unpopular, Trump has it.
Cold and gray, with maga beanies and cracked beers barely concealed in koozies, the scene around town looked more like a football Sunday than a January Tuesday. Subpoena Colada, MAGArita, Moscow Mueller, and The Sanders (“You buy the drink and we give it to someone who doesn’t have one!”) were a few of the “Trump Rally Drink Specials” on offer at the Blue Water Grille. trump 2020 and keep america great banners peppered the restaurant while Fox News’s coverage of the president’s impeachment trial occupied the mounted TVs. Cortland Heyniger Sr. and his son, Cortland Jr., posted up at the bar in matching camo Trump hats and flannel shirts. “The other side lies and tries to divide us,” said Heyniger Jr., an Asbury Park firefighter. “You can see it, you know?”
Janis Sweeney, a hair stylist from Winslow Township, celebrated her 60th birthday by coming to the rally. It was her first time seeing Trump in the flesh, her first political event at all. “I like his attitude,” said Sweeney, wearing a leopard-print coat and a pink women for trump button. “He’s a good guy; he’s sensitive.” She and her husband, Chuck, arrived a full day before the event, tagging each other in and out of the line outside the venue as the wind whipped off the icy Atlantic. Eighty-four-year-old Dorothy Cobb and her daughter pulled into Wildwood on Sunday. Cobb sat on the risers inside with a green knit blanket spread across her lap as she clutched a keep america great! sign. “A lot of people think he’s a bully. Well, we need a bully,” Cobb said.
Maybe Democrats like Biden find excitement crass. Maybe creating excitement is beneath his dignity. I don’t know. But it is obvious to me that excitement is essential.
Think back to 2008 and feel the excitement:
Excitement unleashes the creativity and energy of supporters, doesn’t dictate schoolmarmish instructions to them.
Excitement attracts voters, it doesn’t chase them.
Excitement wins.
Obama did not “excite” me then…or 4 years later.
It should have apparent, when he took more from the financial parasites than did McCain, that he was, in the words of Cornell West: “A black mascot for Wall Street”.
A black mascot for Wall Street who drew African Americans to vote at higher rates than whites. I don’t know if “excitement” is the right word for that, but maybe you weren’t the one they were looking to excite.
Revisionist history. You were pumped at the time. Don’t fucking lie.
Uh…”A black mascot for Wall Street who drew African Americans to vote at higher rates than whites”… is still a black mascot for Wall Street.
So what? I thought we were talking about excitement. The world doesn’t revolve around you. Other people who normally didn’t vote were “excited” enough to vote for him.
You don’t like Obama. So noted. I share the sentiment. Why do you feel the need to insist on it in this context? It has nothing to do with Jason’s point.
Yet again, you make a comment designed to sow discord, not to further discussion. You just can’t avoid the thin ice.
I suppose it’s an accomplishment, though — a real person who manages to sound exactly like a bot.
“It has nothing to do with Jason’s point.” – alby
If “excitement wins” is Jason’s point, 8 years of Obama’s “excitement” begs the questions: Who wins? and what is won?
Obama lost both Houses of Congress and his party lost over a thousand state and local seats.
If “excitement wins”is the point, well, Obama is hardly the best example.
Obama won, and the presidency was won. I’m pretty sure you could have looked that up yourself.
Please, by all means, show me when your candidates have won without excitement. Extra credit for demonstrating that a president has something to do with losing state and local seats.
You demonstrate your ignorance more thoroughly every time you comment.
Was Bill Clinton more to your liking?
You are a lying ass troll who did not lay one glove on the argument.
Loser.
Delacrat is a fucking lying troll ass motherfucker if he is saying he wasn’t pumped up for Obama.
You obviously love Obama even though he kills 8-year-old girls. Monster.
See how easy that is?
To me the question is can Bernie (or anyone) excite the voters that need exciting? Can he turn the demographic that turned on Hillary in 2016, can he maintain the more moderate democrats that Hillary managed to keep (the Chris Coons crowd), and can he bring into the fold the Warren voters who think he’s a misogynist (which I think is bullshit but her supporters don’t and she has a lot of supporters).
Will a Sanders/Trump debate resemble two old, white curmudgeons yelling at kids to get off their lawn and turn voters off?
And speaking of old white men, is anyone paying attention to the African American voters or are they on a shelf until after NH and IA? From what I’m hearing from friends in NJ (locals, not attendees) the Trump crowd two nights ago was a lot more diverse than they ever imagined.
Trump is attracting African American voters the old-fashioned way: Handing out envelopes of cash.
he should hand out phones like obama did. (relax, snowflakes, it is a joke)