Obama hat Hillary Clinton, deren politisches Team persönlich wie ideologisch entschlossen ist, den gegenwärtigen Amtsinhabern ihre Macht zu entreißen, wiederholt mit der in Washington von 2001 bis 2007 vorherrschenden Denkweise in Verbindung gebracht. Auf noch merkwürdigere Weise ließ der geniale und unberechenbare Huckabee wissen, dass der Mormone Mitt Romney, ehemaliger Gouverneur von Massachusetts, die derzeitigen Machthaber vertrete.
Commentators seem to agree that the voters who chose Obama and Huckabee felt that they were rejecting the status quo. To put the missteps of the past behind them, they apparently voted for the candidates about whom they knew the least.  But exactly what status quo did they imagine they were rejecting?  Upon inspection, the “politics as usual” that they apparently sought to rebuff looks nebulous.  Obama has repeatedly linked Hillary Clinton, whose political team is personally and ideologically committed to wresting power from the current incumbents, to the thinking dominant in Washington from 2001 to 2007.  Even more oddly, the genial and erratic Huckabee says that the Mormon former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, represents the powers that be.