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17. Agreed. I'll be blunt - Obama was and is more popular than his party. If you want to fault Obama for anything, it's

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Sun Nov 2, 2025, 11:06 AM

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that his star shone so bright, that it distracted many Democrats from honestly assessing the state of the rest of the party - and the party can't claim any credit for "developing" Obama either - basically, the party just lucked out that a once in 50+ years superstar like Obama fell into their laps out of nowhere.

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