They take a look at this over at FiveThirtyEight….
Barack Obama IS VERY popular with Democrats, especially blacks …
But he was able to win tow elections by having white voters cast they ballots for him that did NOT do so for Hillary Clinton…
Now Joe Biden is NOT Hillary Clinton , who was and is a divisive political figure for those in both parties…
The question would be?
Can Obama get those who voted for him to cast votes for his ‘wingman’?
In 2019, Barack Obama and Donald Trump were America’s most-admired men.
Which is just one reason why Obama’s endorsement of Joe Biden this week was billed as a momentous political event. Obama is a divisive figure — could the first black president in a country like America have ever been anything but? — but he’s the last Democrat to cobble together a winning coalition. He motivated a massive turnout of black voters, played on his pop cultural cache to excite millennials and persuaded upper Midwestern whites to support him.
At its core, Biden’s candidacy is premised on restoring that halcyon Obama era — electorally as much as politically. That’s why Obama will be key to Biden’s success, perhaps more so than any other campaign surrogate in the modern era. The former vice president, while respected, was seen as a weak candidate until his blowout primary victory in South Carolina. Yet the support of those who helped him win that race — black Democrats — is premised largely on his having served under Obama. Biden has yet to crack the nut of gaining sufficient support from white Obama-Trump voters in key states, and his campaign is at an unprecedented stand-still, as at least 28,000 Americans have perished in a pandemic that threatens to overshadow the next months, if not years, of the nation’s life.
Obama, possessed of an almost preternatural equanimity, could be a comfort to Americans as an unsettling presidential campaign plays out. There’s one question that looms large, though: Are Obama’s political powers in 2020 the same as they once were?…
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Note…
Joe Biden also has Donald Trump’s history to run against…
Something that was absent 4 years ago…
Trump IS sure to be incensed every time he hears mention of President Obama’s name since it seems he feels he’s still in competition with him…
Will RTHAT help Boden?
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