Wave Election Review: Insight into why Pryor, Hagan and Grimes, thanks to Obama.

On October 2,  the Washington Post featured an article in review of an Obama speech on the economy,  a speech that would prove,  four weeks later,  to have a primary influence on the November 4 election.

President Obama was at Northwestern University on Thursday to deliver an economic speech that, he and his team hoped, would lay out the case for why the public is better off today than they were six years ago -- even if they didn't feel it in their everday lives. Instead, Obama just gave every Republican ad-maker in the country more fodder for negative ads linking Democratic candidates to him.

Here are the four sentences that will draw all of the attention (they come more than two thirds of the way through the speech): "I am not on the ballot this fall.  Michelle’s pretty happy about that.  But make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot.  Every single one of them." Boil those four sentences down even further and here's what you are left with: "Make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot.  Every single one of them."

You can imagine Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas or Sen. Kay Hagan in North Carolina or Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky grimacing when they heard those 28 words. That trio has spent much of the campaign insisting that this election is NOT about Barack Obama, that it is instead about a choice between themselves and their opponents.

As it turned out,  Pryor (lost by 18 pts),  Hagan (lost by 2 pts) and Grimes (lost by 15 pts)   all lost their Senatorial campaigns and,  in no small measure,  due to the fact that Obama had undermined their campaign strategies.   More than that, and per the words of the WaPost article, here, we now know that Obama's insistence that his policies were on the ballot,  was no gaffe,  but a planned statement and a written part of his speech.  Obama,  obviously,  was angered at being marginalized by his own party.  It is my belief,  that his speech was "pay back,"  an intended rebuke to those who were running from his presidency.  

Somehow,  it has not registered with this presidential impostor,  that he has done nothing but make a mess of nearly everything he has attempted to accomplish   . . . . .     including his involvement in yesterday's midterms.  You should know that Kay Hagan enlisted Obama's help in her campaign, but lost her election bid,  nonetheless.    

Obama also stumped for the Maryland gubernatorial candidate,  but GOP candidate,  Hogan,  won his election bid by a solid and surprising 9 pts.