Nobama's Coming! Head for the Back Country!

August 3, 2010 • 7:23AM

The leader of the Democratic Party, B.H. Obama, is heading to Dallas, Texas Aug. 9. The state's Democratic leaders are already announcing they will be looking for faraway rocks suitable for hiding under.

McClatchy news service reports that gubernatorial nominee Bill White says he will likely be miles away, reaching out to voters in Johnson County. Barbara Radnofsky, the Democrats' nominee for Attorney General, says she too will be preoccupied with campaigning and has no plans to attend an Obama event. Another Democratic statewide office candidate, Austin attorney Hector Uribe, instead of being a tomato target with Obama, says he'll be off somewhere, focused on his bid to unseat Republican Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson. It all would be rotting grist for the late raucus Texas columnist Molly Ivins' mill.

But Texas is not the only turf where Obama would find himself an unwelcome intruder. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports that Obama's approval rating in Minnesota has dropped from 62% in April 2009 to 44% today. "I voted for him," said a Minnesota freight operations manager. "If I had to do it over again, I would not."

And in Georgia, where Obama went today to tell the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) how he is creating more disabled veterans, and to preen before a Democratic National Committee fundraiser, one of Georgia's most prominent Democrats, former Gov. Roy Barnes, was campaigning in southern Georgia, more than 100 miles away from Obama's Atlanta venues.

Nationally, Obama is mired in deserved unpopularity. Among likely voters, Obama currently has a -17 approval rating in the Rasmussen Daily Presidential Approval Index.

Obama has become so unpopular that a weekly political strategy session in the lower level of the West Wing now has to decide where Obama can travel, according to the Sunday New York Times. At a lunch last week in the Roosevelt Room with nine vulnerable Democratic Congressmen, Obama conceded the obvious: "You may not even want me to come to your district," he told them. None of the Aug. 3 primary states—Kansas, Michigan, and Missouri—will have to put up with The One on Election Day.