As bellwethers of liberal demoralization about this election go, I’ve not yet come across anything so clanging as the following comment from Hannah Rosin, responding to the phenomenon of Sarah Palin: “One of my many depressed Obama-supporting friends suggests a tidy solution: Repeal the 19th Amendment.” That would be the one that extends the franchise to women, and the point was driven home by the forum Rosin chose for relaying this morose alternative: the XX Factor feminist blog at Slate. I’ll save you the trouble of searching out any black conservative’s anguished recommendation that the 15th Amendment be put on hold until after John McCain is elected.
Yes, it’s rather moonlight and self-pity in Democratic circles now that the prospect of an Obama administration may not be the certainty it seemed only weeks ago. “There is a growing sense of doom among Democrats I have spoken to,” the Financial Times quotes a party fundraiser who formerly supported Hillary Clinton. “People are going crazy, telling the campaign ‘you’ve got to do something’.” Evidently, even congressional candidates from Obama’s party have taken to distancing themselves from him and declined also to attack John McCain. Perhaps most telling of all was the banal remark from Bill Clinton, taken by Michael Crowley at The New Republic to be inspirational, that Obama would still win “pretty handily.”
