Another DNC chairman comes out for Obama...?
From ABC's The Note,
Also: Another Obama superdelegate, the youngest super.
(The broader story line right now seems to be Clinton gaining in polls, but losing in the delegate math. (AP, NYTimes))
Speaking of math -- the Obama campaign rolls out another former DNC chairman's endorsement on Friday: Paul Kirk, a superdelegate who led the party from 1985-1989, is coming out for Obama -- a day after Andrew's switch, an Obama campaign official tells The Note. (And don't count on that being it for the day, as the dribble continues.)
Also: Another Obama superdelegate, the youngest super.
(The broader story line right now seems to be Clinton gaining in polls, but losing in the delegate math. (AP, NYTimes))
posted by mikevotes at
7:12 AM
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"The broader story line right now seems to be Clinton gaining in polls..."
Hillary has run a Republican-style campaign... and as Lee Atwater and Karl Rove have demonstrated, it's a effective formula. She's a political chameleon, expert in the ways of self-reinvention (how many "Hillary's" have we seen since Jan?), pandering and selling politically vapidity "solutions" as actual leadership. And she's not afraid to go negative -- hard -- and to simply make stuff up if necessary. In short, she knows you can seldom go wrong by underestimating the intelligence of the American electorate or the laziness of the corporate American media.
Obama's problem -- such as it is -- is that he is appealing to the better nature of Americans, rather than the lesser nature. He's asking Americans to do something rather than patting them on the head and telling them "There, there. You don't have to do a thing. Daddy's going to make it all better."
Hillary's telling the voters they're victims. That she's their only hope. Vote for her or things will be very bad for them. (A variation of the "vote Republican or the terrorists will rape your daughters" strategy) Obama is telling voters to refuse to be victims. Americans like to see themselves as victims.
Calling on Americans to be proactive in their political destiny was always a bit risky. Inspiring, yes. But as we've seen, the older generations and the lower classes, are less inclined to be attracted to such a call to action. Broadly speaking we're not real good at accepting responsibility. We're better at pointing our fingers than rolling up our sleeves.
Obama desperately needs to change the media echo chamber back to his favor.... at least for the run up to November. Right now it seems he's focusing more on the delegate math. I suspect they're working very hard within the party power structure get behind Obama and shut the Clinton's down before the do any more damage to the Democrats -- both nationally and to the down-ticket politicians.
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-epm, at 9:05 AM
You bring up a very interesting dichotomy. Clinton is running a Republican style attack, smear, and divide campaign while at the same time hitting all of the Democratic pander points. "Ask not what you can do for your country....."
Another interesting line is the idea that Obama's "elitist." Separate from the direct comparisons with Clinton's elitism, the whole concept of electing "a regular joe" as president seems pretty foolish to me. I want someone far better and smarter than me running the White House.
And, yeah, the Obama campaign is running something of a prevent in the primaries at this point, and the evidence is that they're working the backroom stuff very hard. They're trying to build their case for winning the overall primary rather than winning the actual primaries. Their focus is to get the 100 or so superdelegates they need to shut off Cliton's hopes.
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mikevotes, at 10:29 AM
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