Dem Fundraiser: "It's Happening Again"

A major Democratic fundraiser described it a good bit more starkly after
digesting the polls of recent days: “I’m so depressed. It’s happening again.
It’s a nightmare.”

Politico piece. Check out this graf:

“The [Obama] campaign is beginning to look like other campaigns,” said a former top strategist for past Democratic presidential campaigns, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “Obama is struggling with working-class whites just like John Kerry, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Michael Dukakis did, and Walter Mondale. He’s struggling with voters in the border-state South. And he’s struggling with an enormous wind at his back, a hatred for George Bush and a mainstream media that is little short of a chorus for his campaign.”