Time Mag: The Obama movement has gone missing.

Time.com: Why Obama Has to Worry About Polls

The Obama movement has gone missing.

The 2009 elections in New Jersey and Virginia were initially talked about by Obama allies as a test of the President's organizing power. By the time the votes were counted, however, with Republicans winning two Democratic seats, no one at the White House wanted to claim any responsibility. That's because the remarkable enthusiasm that greeted Obama's victory in 2008, with record turnout among independents, blacks and young people, had gone away, along with the minions of Obama organizers. "I think that we all thought, and I think that the President thought, that they would stay with it because we would create this movement," explained Lake, at a recent reporter briefing organized by the Christian Science Monitor. In fact, the enthusiasm gap bodes poorly for 2010, when Obama will be trying to minimize losses in the House and the Senate. According to the recent Battleground poll, just under two-thirds of Democrats say they are extremely likely to vote in upcoming elections, compared to 77% of Republicans and Independents.

 

I think I know where some of them are, but their numbers have fallen and the teaparty numbers have gone up. Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 26% strongly support Obama (that would include all of those in the Obama movement and those who may not be in the movement but blindly support Obama) vs 44% Strongly Disapprove ... well that would be the opposition.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administra...