Election Day is 41 days away.
While tea partiers are partying like it’s 1994, Democrats are disappointed, dispirited and disillusioned.
President Barack Obama heard an earful during yesterday’s town hall meeting.
It could not have been music to Obama’s ears to hear Velma Hart, a veteran and chief financial officer at a nonprofit organization, say she’s “exhausted” defending him.
Hart is not alone. New York Times columnist Bob Herbert writes:
It’s no secret that the president is in trouble politically, and that Democrats in Congress are fighting desperately to hold on to their majorities. But much less attention has been given to the level of disenchantment among black voters, who have been hammered disproportionately by the recession and largely taken for granted by the Democratic Party. That disenchantment is likely to translate into lower turnout among blacks this fall.
Herbert continued:
Most blacks are reluctant to publicly express their concerns about the president because they are so outraged by the blatantly unfair and often racist attacks against him from the political right. But many blacks are unhappy that Mr. Obama hasn’t been more forceful in the fight to create jobs. And there is disappointment over the dearth of black faces in high-profile posts in the administration.
In plain English, Obama’s supporters are tide, T-I-D-E, of being taken for granted.
