By any measure, tonight is not going to be a good one for Democrats. Republican Bob McDonnell has won a commanding victory in the Virginia gubernatorial race, Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffmann looks well-positioned to win the special election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, and Republican Chris Christie is at the very least going to keep the New Jersey gubernatorial race much closer than anyone would expect in a deep-blue state.
It’s against this backdrop that HBO is debuting “By the People: the Election of Barack Obama” a behind-the-scenes documentary of the presidential campaign that cruised to victory almost exactly a year ago. This also coincides with the release of “The Audacity to Win”, the insider book by Obama’s campaign manager, David Plouffe.
By the time tonight is over, the public may understand what some of us have been saying for a year: that the 2008 election was a personality-driven anomaly, not an enduring realignment. Not the best time for the Obama camp to be in the hagiography business.
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