Another time.

As the pundits discuss Obama's electability in November because of his supposed inability to attract blue-color workers, I would like to quote from "The Crises of the Old Order" by Arthur M. Schlesinger, concerning another candidate, in another time of economic distress, "Roosevelt was still in the lead, so far as delegates were concerned, but within a fortnight his bandwagon momentum had been stopped. Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and California, wrote Walter Lippman, were the only real tests: and in all of these Roosevelt had made a poor showing. "When one remembers that he has been in the sight of the nomination for months, that he alone among the candidates has a nation-wide organization, that his name is Roosevelt, that he has sought to identify himself with the discontent of the people, his failure to show popular strength is remarkable." The professionals, Lippman added, had come to realize that if Roosevelt were nominated his weaknesses would develop so rapidly during the campaign that he would surely be defeated. "The truth is that he has not a good enough grasp of the issues nor the power of quick and firm decision to withstand the withering fire which the Republicans would subject him to." (p.293-294)

'Nuff said.