Richard Cohen spent Labor Day there, and found zero fans
(NEWSER) - Richard Cohen spent his Labor Day hobnobbing around the Hamptons, that magical place where, in his description, "the Democratic energy, money, and intellectual firepower of Manhattan goes for R&R." It may not be the vacation destination of the working-man Democratic base, he acknowledges, but it's a good Democratic barometer. And here's how Cohen read that barometer: The Hamptons are over President Obama. While spending the holiday at events peopled by lawyers, tycoons, academics, and other such folk, the topic of Obama came up at every single one. "At none of them—that’s none—was he defended." More»