Is Barack Obama a shoo-in to win his debates with Mitt Romney? If that’s what you’re thinking, think again.
What we are now seeing is the disintegration of many of the new and old media conventional wisdom pillars about Obama, him and his campaign’s political skills, and how he’ll likely fare against Romney. And it has been a litany of bad news — for Obama and the Democrats.
These narratives usually go in stages. So will we see a new stage in coming months where the narrative is Obama on the ascent and Romney on the descent? You have to be blunt: if the Obama campaign continues as it has been going the past week, the GOP will win the White House and most likely at least one house of Congress.
A standard assumption was that Obama would win the debates, hands down. The link suggests otherwise.
It suggests that Romney is quickly learning, proving to be a tougher candidate, and (for now) has his organization’s act together. Can that be said as of this writing about Barack Obama?
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.