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Question by JakeS: Has Obama lost his luster, are his former supporters and voters turning away from him now?
It’s starting. The mainstream press is starting to turn on Saint Obama. To many conservatives it is likely that he is already considered flawed, but now we see the left leaning press beginning to take him apart. Robert J. Samuelson in today’s WaPo had this to say:

Having doubts, or being a skeptic as most journalists would admit, is a natural tendency, but this whole picture is just forming. Here’s how Samuelson closes his article:

The contrast between his broad rhetoric and his narrow agenda is stark, and yet the media — preoccupied with the political “horse race” — have treated his invocation of “change” as a serious idea rather than a shallow campaign slogan. He seems to have hypnotized much of the media and the public with his eloquence and the symbolism of his life story. The result is a mass delusion that Obama is forthrightly engaging the nation’s major problems when, so far, he isn’t.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/19/AR2008021902336.html?nav=hcmodule

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Answer by Xbalanque
I haven’t really seen a change. People are still voting for Obama, democrats are still breaking voting records in states. But sure you can believe what ever you want. Whatever lets you sleep at night.

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