The Big Fat Hunkin’ We Told You So thread

Is this the day we get our due?

Paul Krugman’s blog: He Wasn’t the One We’ve been Waiting For

But I have to say, I’m pretty close to giving up on Mr. Obama, who seems determined to confirm every doubt I and others ever had about whether he was ready to fight for what his supporters believed in.

Ezra Klien’s Twitter

There’s a difference between letting Congress lead as a strategy and being unable to lead Congress. WH is teetering now. about 4 hours ago from web Retweeted by 10 people

I got the above from a TL thread by BTD with followed by his comment: Ezra Klein, Puma?)

The New Republic: Does He Feel Your Pain? Forget Massachusetts. Obama’s problem is nationwide.

The most important question raised by Coakley’s loss is not what she could have done better–the answer to that can fill pages of unhappy anecdotes about campaign mishaps–but why Obama’s popularity is so low that a Democrat could lose Massachusetts. A conservative Republican Senate candidate winning Massachusetts, which Obama carried by 62 percent to 36 percent in 2008, is comparable to a liberal Democrat carrying Utah.