Obama Is The Winner In Today's Caucuses
Obama Is The Winner In Today's Caucuses, His Pollster Tells BuzzFeed
DES MOINES, Iowa -- From the vantage point of the president’s reelection campaign headquarters across the state line in Chicago, tonight's Iowa Caucuses already have a clear winner: Barack Obama.
Iowans’ endless whining about the weakness of their field has put the lie to the notion that Republican are more passionate than Democrats about the coming election, Obama’s top pollster, Joel Benenson, argued in an interview with BuzzFeed. And, he said, their “self-inflicted wounds” will continue to haunt their nominee through 2012.
“The reality is that there’s a lot less enthusiasm for this field than people may have touted,” Benenson said. “This is a field where every candidate comes with significant flaws in terms of the general election, in terms of their economic values, in terms of their extreme positions, in terms being under the influence of the Tea Party.”
“They’ve created problems for themselves,” he said.
One of the biggest problems: Immigration. Mitt Romney, who had succeeded in skirting some of the details of an issue that sharply divides conservative Republicans from Hispanic voters, was pulled late last month into promising that he would veto the Dream Act – legislation that would give exemplary illegal immigrants who arrived as children a path to citizenship.
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