Do you approve of disapprove of the way Barack Obama is conducting his presidential campaign?

[BuyingThyme]

[MrsT]

1. Yes.

There are things I disagree with but, all in all, he is running it very well. Much better than Kerry in 04.

[Olney Blue]

2. I'm undecided, and a bit worried.

[TheDebbieDee]

15. I'm a little bit worried, too.......

I'm afraid that by taking the high road and not dragging the McCain family's dirty laundry out (his wife is a crackhead, McCain IS "The Manchurian Candidate" (he was a prisoner of war, subjected to torture, brainwashed by the Viet Cong and about to placed in the White House), etc, etc, etc) the Obama Campaign will keep this election close enough for the repukes to try to steal it!

I just don't want us Democrats to take a knife to a gunfight for the 3rd straight election. We CAN'T afford to lose!

[Maddy McCall]

3. I support Obama wholeheartedly. I'm a little disappointed...

(massive understatement) in some of the positions he's taken on issues before and after the primaries ended.

[nc4bo]

4. So far so good.

then again I'm still learning Politics 101.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it but when the polls start to slip and mcslime shows some upward mobility, team O needs to make the proper adjustments in a very timely fashion.

[kentuck]

5. wow !

That's surprising!

[300warriors]

6. There should be "strongly approve", "approve", etc.

For those who approve, but with reservations.

[Liberty Belle]

7. I agree.

Overall he's doing a strong job of messaging and rapid response to the GOP hits. That said, i've been disappointed on some positions of his, notably on FISA.

[BuyingThyme]

14. Welcome to DU, 300Warriors!

:hi:

[jaysunb]

8. This poll will mirror the final results in Nov.

:evilgrin:

[onehandle]

9. Yes. Running to the Center wins. nt

[Kokonoe]

10. I see his positions as presidential.

Unless he would veto what the Democratic majority puts forward and passes,
hes not going to make a meaningless protest vote.

[BlueJac]

11. I support Obama

I am worried about his real mission as president. Freidman economics has ruined this country and we need a change and I don't see it in Obama. This country is fucked unless we change direction for real and not in rhetoric.

[rzemanfl]

12. Look, a poorly handled withdrawal from Iraq could be a

bloodbath. A fighting withdrawal through a hostile and fairly well armed country over limited routes could cost us more troops than we've lost so far. Cleaning up after BushCo is going to be one hell of a job. We are being played by the media, who lately see nothing wrong with telling flat out lies about Obama's positions and intentions.

[AtomicKitten]

13. I paid my money and boarded the ride.

Obama clearly knows what he is doing, intends to win and bring with him a supermajority in Congress, and I'm on board all the way to the White House.

[ecstatic]

16. wow. is sanity returning?! :) nt

[Douglas Carpenter]

17. My real answer is actually 57%! 57% of me approves of the way Sen. Obama is conducting his campaign

[BuyingThyme]

18. ..

[uponit7771]

19. For the most part he's doing a good job

[Lucky 13]

20. Reloading after the contentious primaries...

I really liked his primary campaign. Very exciting. Very inspirational. Thus far, the general has been less inspiring and for a number of reasons, he's seemed like just another politician... largely because of FISA...

But I think we can't really start to judge his general campaign until the convention. Until then he's kind of laying low, setting up the party for the fall, planning for the convention, building up the war chest, campaigning in typically RED areas. Come the convention and the debates I have faith he's going to be ROCKING again. The key to those events is exploiting the contrasts... war over in 2009 or war over in 2109? economic help for the middle class or the wealthy and corporations? Tall, hip, cool, bright young man or decrepit, elderly, hot-tempered, pandering, lying old man? New or old? ANYTHING different or EVERYTHING the same?

Time will tell.

[Alter Ego]

21. I'm going to be straight--I'm a young American voter, and I enjoyed being courted

by Obama's groundbreaking primary campaign.

However, as much as I may not like it, the general election is a different animal. Obama's soaring rhetoric, as amazing as it was, has to take a back seat now. He has to talk to people I don't like and he might say a few things I don't necessarily agree with. He's got to get into the nuts and bolts of his campaign and appeal to a broader spectrum of people than the folks that make up his base.

So yes--I do approve, because he's running a campaign that will appeal to so many more people than just US.