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Obama the Underdog

Submitted August 20, 2008 - 2:17 pm by Vik N (not verified)

Al writes -  Obama plays the underdog role much better than he plays the frontrunner.

So true.  I'm not convinced that Obama is behind at all but as Al asked us to play along, I say remember in he summer when Obama was down 30 points to Clinton and didn't panic.

Of course a long primary season is different than a single general election but the Obama team is hyper organized and I get the sense that Obama is waiting till the convention and right after to hit McCain hard.  I suspect that the campaign has their strategy mapped out.

So many people are worried that Obama is like Kerry and too passive but what we've seen of Obama is that he is nothing like Kerry.  He's competitive, sharp, funny and likes to hit his opponents, regardless of what he says publicly about his politics.  The only thing he won't do is an out and out Swiftboat.

What he did to Clinton is case in point.  When he needed to hit her politically, he did.  When he didn't, he didn't and too many of the chattering class took that to mean that he was soft or didn' have a killer instinct when nothing could be further from the truth.

Obama has the competitive mentality of an athlete who happens to be hyper intelligent.

After McCain spends the last of his primary money this month Obama will raise about $80 to $100 Million in September and October for the general and will deluge McCain in terms of ads, staff, turnout operations etc... he and his campaign are simply pacing themselves and they are about to turn on the ignition for their unprecedented campaign battleship that they have been quietly building away from the spotlight of the chattering classes of Maureen Dowds and Mark Halperins.

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