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Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on November 20, 2010

Strange... Obama ignores election results, tells election volunteers: You guys turned ‘Yes We Can’ into ‘Yes We Did’

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt, boys and girls.

Maybe dethroned-Speaker Nancy Pelosi is sharing her taxpayer-funded liquor stash with Dear Leader these days. That could explain the “what in the heck is he talking about?” delusional pep talk Captain Clueless delivered to his liberal election volunteers.

The president simply doesn’t comprehend — or doesn’t want to acknowledge — the clear, angry message that millions of voters sent to the government on November 2 against Washington’s radical agenda and spendaholic irresponsibility.

Pres. Obama doesn’t get it. And by the looks of it, he never will.

From FOX News, Obama Tells Midterm Volunteers: “You Guys Turned ‘Yes We Can’ Into ‘Yes We Did’”:

Even ABC News is perplexed. He’s described the midterms rout as a “shellacking” and now he’s talking like it’s the 2008 elections all over again. Back on the wacky tobacky?…

(ABC News)- Members of Organizing for America – the president’s former campaign committee – received a text message today asking them to call 888-206-1431 “to hear a special message from President Obama.”

In the recorded message, the president says, “Thank you for the tireless work, you guys organized the single largest midterm election effort in this history of our party…You turned ‘Yes We Can’ into ‘Yes We Did.’”

ABC’s Jake Tapper is also scratching his head over Obama’s bizarre denial of the decimation of the Democrat Congress on Red Tuesday.

From Tapper’s Political Punch… Huh? President Obama Tells Volunteers That In Midterms “You Guys Turned ‘Yes We Can’ Into ‘Yes We Did’:

Members of Organizing for America – the president’s former campaign committee – received a text message today asking them to call 888-206-1431 “to hear a special message from President Obama.”

In the recorded message, the president says, “Thank you for the tireless work, you guys organized the single largest midterm election effort in this history of our party…You turned ‘Yes We Can’ into ‘Yes We Did.’”

“You didn’t sit this one out even when all the pundits said it was hopeless and because of that we are stronger,” the president said.

Considering that President Obama himself called the election “a shellacking,” with Democrats losing control of the House of Representatives, six Senate seats, 20 state legislatures, one might be forgiven for wondering exactly he thinks his volunteers did – other than valiantly trying but failing to get enough voters to the polls.

“This was about the volunteer effort, not the election result,” said Democratic National Committee spokesman Brad Woodhouse. “The party made 86 million voter contacts, we had staff or volunteers in 435 congressional districts, we raised and spent more money than ever in a midterm, we had the largest midterm field effort ever, we ran or staffed virtually all the coordinated campaigns in all the key states.”

As ABC News Polling Director Gary Langer has pointed out, according to exit polls, 29 million Obama voters from 2008 didn’t show up to vote in the midterms.

“Thirteen percent of Obama voters defected to Republicans for Congress,” Langer noted.

Women – who won women voters by 13 points in 2008 — voted 49-48 percent for Democratic vs. Republican House candidate — the best for Republicans among women in national House vote in exit polls since 1982.”

In terms of party self-identification, Democrats went to the polls in 2008 with a seven point advantage in 2008, 40-33% over Republicans. This year it was 36-36 percent.

Swing-voting independents went for Obama by 8 points in 2008; this year they favored Republicans for the House 55-39 percent – the Republicans’ biggest win among independents in exit polls since 1982.

Young voters, in particular, were a disaster this year. Eighteen-to-29 year olds comprised 18% of the electorate in 2008 and only 12 percent earlier this month.

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