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Can President Obama Learn from Fenty’s Fall?
Wed, 09/15/2010 - 08:38 — wilmerleon

In September 2006 the headline of the Washington Post read “Fenty Prevails in Mayor's Race.” The Ward 4 Council member defeated Council chair Linda Cropp in the democratic primary 57% to 31%; winning all eight wards and every precinct in the District.

A year later Fenty like former Congressman Harold Ford Jr., Anthony Brown, the lieutenant governor of Maryland, and the Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, Cory Booker was being compared with then Senator Obama as a new generation of African American political leadership. These individuals have been credited with running a new type of campaign, not limiting themselves to Black districts – running “race neutral” campaigns.

Almost four years to the day later the headline of the Washington Post reads “Gray defeats Fenty in mayoral primary.” Elections are a combination of candidates, issues, and personalities. When a candidate’s personality becomes the issue there’s a problem for that candidate.

As late as January 2010 the Washington Post wrote, “Nine months before the Democratic primary, Fenty (D) has no widely known or well-funded challengers, even as recent polls have shown his popularity declining.” Others (such as Vincent Gray) at that time were thinking about running but any challenger would, “be hard-pressed to match the $3 million that Fenty has raised toward his bid for a second term.” Council Chairman Vincent Gray did not enter the race until March and was able to raise the money and garner enough support to defeat the incumbent Mayor with almost $4.5 million in his war chest to Gray’s $1.3 million.

Second only to Sen. Barack Obama’s defeat of Sen. Hillary Clinton, Fenty’s defeat has to be one of if not the most significant turnarounds of political misfortune in recent history. Within the span of seven months, Fenty went from being the unopposed incumbent Mayor of the District of Columbia to loosing the democratic primary. He snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

Are there parallels to be drawn between Fenty’s loss and President Obama’s struggles? They may have some similar problems but for different reasons. Both Fenty and President Obama have run into problems with their base of support. Fenty with African American voters in the District and the president with progressives and independent voters. The deracial nature of their politics is not the basis of their problems.

Polls indicated a real disconnect between the perception of accomplishment in the District and Fenty’s personality. According to the Washington Post, “Although most of those Democrats polled credit the mayor with a record of accomplishment and say he brought needed change to the District, many doubt his honesty, his willingness to listen to different points of view and his ability to understand their problems. The criticisms are especially deep-seated among African Americans, who are likely to make up a majority of primary voters.” Fenty’s fall was based upon a personal failing that manifested itself in his inability to retain the trust of the voters in the District.

President Obama faces different circumstances. He has been overcome by an economic recession that has made it very difficult for him to stay on message. The Rasmussen Reports that forty-one percent (41%) of the nations voters Strongly Disapprove of the presidents performance, giving him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -12. He also faces a Republican Party that has decided to oppose him at every turn; trying to be bipartisan in an obstructionist environment. There are also those who question if the progressive politics that he ran on were actually his politics.

Both Mayor Fenty and President Obama are having problems maintaining the support of their base. Fenty lost the support of the African American’s in the District not because of the deracialized nature of his politics but because of his arrogance, lapses is judgment and his attempts to push initiatives through with out getting buy-in from his supporters. President Obama is loosing his base because progressives and independents don’t feel he has championed their causes and fought hard enough against conservative recalcitrance in congress. They still like him as a person but question his ability to lead, fight, and defend the principles of the left.

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Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker and Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian M. Fenty are sometimes mistaken for each other: Both of them have similarly shaven bald heads and are grouped among the new breed of black political leadership. Unlike their predecessors, who rode a wave out of the civil rights movement and into mayoralties of major cities, Fenty and Booker have the potential to exceed the old paradigm of race-based politics in this country.

But first they'll have to win over their toughest critics: black voters.

In 2006 Fenty swept every precinct in the District in the Democratic primary -- an unprecedented victory in which both whites and blacks shared a favorable view of him. Four years later, Fenty is struggling to hold on to his seat in today's hotly contested primary election. (In heavily Democratic D.C., the primaries typically decide the mayoral race.) Fenty is trailing 67-year-old Vincent C. Gray, who has tapped into black discontent despite Fenty's spending a record $5 million on his campaign. A Washington Post poll showed 64 percent of white Democrats favored Fenty, while 64 percent of black Democrats said they would vote for Gray. Only 19 percent of black voters said that they would vote for Fenty.

Booker has also struggled with black voters. In May he was re-elected with 59 percent of the vote -- down from his 72 percent landslide in 2006 -- despite having spent $5.5 million, more than all the other candidates in the race. In addition, Booker's own polls show him struggling with black voters. A 2008 internal poll conducted by Obama pollster Joel Benenson found that only 69 percent of blacks agreed with the statement that Booker was bringing progress to Newark, compared with 85 percent of whites and Latinos. Forty-four percent of black single mothers, who make up at least 8 percent of the city's electorate, felt Booker was taking the city in the wrong direction.

Booker's aspirations for higher office could fail without big numbers in majority-black communities, including Newark. Fenty could lose today's election -- and indeed is predicted to lose, according to earlier polls.

The troubles of both mayors, who have held joint fundraisers to support each other, raise the question of whether black leaders can survive without black voters.

Booker's and Fenty's struggles to win over black voters resemble those of Artur Davis in Alabama. In seeking the nod for governor earlier this year, Davis eschewed the support of blacks and civil rights organizations, saying that times had changed. Davis lost.

Political observers say that some African-American leaders elected in the era of President Obama have misinterpreted his election and have miscalculated the black electorate. These recent elections demonstrate that certain African-American politicians may have abandoned too soon the social-justice platforms that defined the wave of mayors in the 1970s and 1980s.

&quot;As is often the case, politicians ... derive the wrong conclusion from the outcome,&quot; says Vincent Hutchings, a political science professor at the University of Michigan. &quot;The appeal of the post-racial platform is mostly to non-blacks.&quot;

Many African Americans are still struggling with disadvantages in employment and health care -- issues that do not have easy fixes and are still tangled in racial discrimination, Hutchings says. In addition, he said, blacks tend to be more dependent on government jobs because of discrimination in the private sector. &quot;People understandably want their needs to be addressed.&quot;

Fenty's appointment of non-blacks to major cabinet positions, terminations of longtime black government workers and teachers, and a failure to meet with civil rights icon Dorothy Height and poet Maya Angelou are among the slights that have turned off a majority of African-American voters.

Booker has faced similar criticism regarding his plans to lay off hundreds of city workers, including mostly black sanitation workers who make up the city's struggling working class.

&quot;Despite the fact that he won 40 percent of the black vote, Cory does have a problem with blacks in this city,&quot; says Rahaman Muhammad, leader of the influential SEIU Local 617. &quot;Cory's secret hasn't got out yet. Most black people outside of Newark think he is beloved by blacks inside the city.&quot;

That certainly wasn't the case when Booker first ran for office in 2002. During his first mayoral bid, Booker's opponent, longtime mayor Sharpe James, furiously attacked him for not being black enough. James painted Booker -- who grew up in a wealthy New Jersey suburb, attended Stanford University and Yale Law School, and was a Rhodes scholar -- as a plant by white outsiders who saw Newark's potential and wanted to take over.

&quot;You have to learn to be an African American! And we don't have time to train you all night,&quot; James taunted in 2002. His Election Day slogan was &quot;Save Newark.&quot;

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all illusions...
done know seh a babylonia tricknology...
obama was a ruse to lull the afri-american to sleep and to re-awaken the euro-american's bigotry