Mccain should’ve practiced the Karl Rove fundamentals

Now, I’m not willing to say that Obama has it in the bag even though all the polls have him up nationally, there are still three weeks left to this campaign and anything could happen.

Obama is still capable of making a catastrophic misstep and those white working class voters who are still on the sidelines could suddenly jump off and throw their full support behind John Mccain. I don’t think either of these things will happen but they are a possibility.

In the last week, I’ve tried to watch John Mccain’s campaign objectively, (yes, I have..lol) and all I have to say is that his campaign is undisciplined and his messages lack direction and consistency.

One day his campaign is attacking Obama’s character and his past associations vigorously. The next day he’s attacking his record. The next day he’s telling his supporters, he’s not an arab but he’s a decent and good family man. The next day he’s talking about his economic plans.

Now, if  I were a rational, intelligent, Republican leaning independent voter I wouldn’t know which message to listen too. But I do know the message that Obama is an Arab, marxist terrorist with plans to enslave white people would NOT be an effective or persuasive enough argument to get my vote.

And this is and continues to be John Mccain’s problem. His messages are inconsistent and imprecise.
And with only three weeks left to the general election this is a failing strategy.

Yes, the current unfavorable political climate, economic conditions and an unconventional opponent should have caused the Mccain camp to adjust their strategy but not so much so to cause their campaign to appear in disarray and desperate.

Karl Rove and his team would never have allowed this to happen.

For all the reasons we liberals hate Karl Rove we must admit he maintained, practiced and demanded message discipline from the candidate and their supporters and when he found a weakness in his opponents he zeroed in on it, concentrated his resources and exploited it effectively to the benefit of his candidate.

Mccain and his team, and the Republican party in general at the moment, lack these capabilities and although it didn’t work in 2006 it can be argued that it might have worked this time around even with all the obstacles.

Mccain has been trying to replicate some of the plays from past Republican play books and they just aren’t working however,  I do believe if they had practiced the ‘Karl Rove fundamentals 101′ from the very beginning we might be seeing entirely different poll results but we’ll just have to wait a few more days to see if their missteps and misfires were disastrous.

Will it be today?

 

 

 

Today could be the day that Barack Obama, a black man, a young, black man, finally clinches the Presidential nomination of the Democratic Party for the first time ever in the history of the United States!

Will I watch the first black president of the United States, the first black first lady and the first black family walk onto a stage in St.Paul, Minnesota later this evening to cheers and screams of happiness from a predominatly white audience?

Have I and will I continue to watch the hopes and dreams of a people, of a country become automatically embodied in the life and work of one man,once again?

Will I watch today in awe as a baton is passed from one generation to another?

Has this all been a dream?

Have I and thousands of others like me been living in a fantasy world for the last 16 months?

No!

Today is the day that everything changes.

Today is the day that we start building a new and brighter future together!

Today is the day that we recognize that nothing will ever, ever be the same again and yet with that knowledge we walk gallantly into the future better prepared and significantly more uplifted than we have ever been in the past.

Today is not just Barack Obama’s day..today, is OUR day!!!

 

 

 

Obama, the ‘official’ Democratic nominee by this time next week

 

So says Harry Reid Senate Majority Leader and Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an article on the New York Times  website Harry Reid said, “By this time next week, it will all be over, give or take a day,” 

Wanna bet Ms.Clinton and her supporters say, “Not so fast you two….,” LOL.. 

***Update****  Pelosi warns Clinton supporters but will they heed her advice?

 

 

 

Another Obama first?

So the Obama campaign has sent out a questionnaire/survey soliciting information from supporters upon completion you can offer any suggestions or advice you have for Obama and the upcoming general election campaign.

I like it.

I like it a lot.

I have never heard of a campaign doing something like this before just as I had never heard of a campaign asking for just five dollars the Obama campaign have broken lots of new ground this political season.  Haven’t they? LOL

It can be argued that by actively requesting the advice of the ‘average girl and guy’ supporter Obama continues to fuel his campaign by helping to contribute to the feeling that every single person in his campaign matters no matter how small, they are just as powerful as his closest advisers.

It may be just a feeling but it works and it works well. 

You can bet that present and future political campaigns are taking notes.

Well, they should be..

 

 

Obama’s tune up..

 

Barack Obama said today that he’s going to fine tune his campaign in order to reach those low income, white voters that will be critical to winning the presidency come November after losing them by a pretty high margin to Clinton, once again, this week in Pennsylvania.

Obama as I have said on numerous occassions and in earlier blogs needs to reach out and connect with this demographic on their terms and in their communities in order to make inroads into Clintons’ base.

In order for Obama to win this constituency he must convincely and sincerely convey who he is and what he stands for since many even at this late stage still claim to have little or no knowledge about Obama.

Now, I don’t profess to know the inner workings of a presidential campaign or any political campaign but I do believe that if a candidate has had consistent problems with a particularly crucial demographic, like Obama has had with the white working class, he/she should work harder and consistently speak with the members of this group in order to understand why he/she isn’t at least breaking even with their opponent especially if they are both offering pretty much the same policies and ‘promises’.

This is what Obama needs to do.

He should be doing more impromptu stops. He should be greeting the farmer in his fields. The waitress at her dinner and the construction worker on the job site. And more importantly he should look comfortable doing it. He sometimes looks as though he doesn’t know what do in those settings and it comes off as if he’s uncomfortable around everyday folk he can’t appear that way anymore. This is the end game. And in the end game every thing matters.

His novelty, has started to wear off and he’s now got to show them, the white working class, why he’s the best and only man for the job and not just some black guy, with a Harvard degree and a funny name who is the democratic party’s flavor of the month.

I concede Obama, may never win the majority of them over completely for a number of reasons including race.

But, if he fights tooth and nail with Clinton and then McCain for every single white working class vote and he’s willing to convey that he understands and show that he respects that God and guns sometimes go hand in hand in many places in this land, without compromising his own core positions on specific issues like gun control I’m willing to bet the same people that are now voting for Clinton and have voted for a Republican in almost every single presidential election since 1977, wouldn’t ‘hold their noses’ and vote for him come November but will actually on voting day march to the polls in greater numbers than we expect and cast their ballots in support of the black guy, with a funny name because they know that he’s the best man for the job and he earned their votes and their respect just like any other candidate.

Ultimately, for the first viable black presidential candidate it boils down to if he can earn their respect he’ll gain their vote!

 

 

 

Where have all the presidential nominees gone?

So, over the weekend I started thinking about all the presidential nominees that have come and gone since 2007!

Where are they? What are they doing? What were they names again..lol?

I’m just saying..I can’t remember all their names and I doubt you can too..go on..try…try to list all the former perspective nominees on the republican side I bet you don’t get more than four! Without cheating, no Wikipedia…lol.

Anyway, I decided that each day this week I’m going to feature one of the candidates and their going-ons since they dropped out the race! Now I don’t claim to have super sleuthing powers but the net is a great, great thing and whatever I find out I’ll post and if you find something out as well post it…

So let’s begin my version of where are they now with former mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani.

Well apparently, Mr.Giuliani hasn’t really left the campaign trail apparently he’s been stumping for McCain almost and even in some cases more fervently than he did for himself, how sad…how very, very sad. One year ago Rudy was leading in all the national polls he even had a double digit lead over the current nominee, John McCain!

Today, he’s a wealthy, high profile surrogate!

Can you imagine spending 40 million dollars to end up a McCain surrogate/spokesman a job that you would’ve got anyway?  Man that’s gotta cut deep but on the flip side he now has more time to go shopping with Judy!!!

Look at that smile on John McCain…could it be any bigger!!! LOL

McCain is the GOP nominee..

Mccain looks good..let’s see what he’s got..

And of course Cindy McCain looks great as usual..another pastel..she seems to like those colors..

We knew it all along he’s going to run a national security campaign and it’s going to be difficult for the democrats to beat him on that but if the dems elect Obama he will do it..

When Obama wins the nominatin will Hillary support him?

 

You know what I wonder will Hillary and Bill Clinton support Obama when he’s the nominee..now I don’t think Hillary will be his running mate but I wonder if she will actively campaign for him..will she put aside the bitterness she will obviously feel towards him and those in his campaign and travel around the country talking about how great and wonderful he is?

You know people talk about putting the party first and doing what’s best for the party and the country but we’re all human and after such a tough, tough campaign will she able to put aside her loss and support this upstart guy who took the nomination from her?

And I wonder how Bill Clinton will be received in the black community after all the things he’s said and hinted at in this campaign..this will make for some very, very interesting blogs I can’t wait..lol

 

Giuliani spent 40 million dollars in Florida…

Wow, Rudy Giuliani spent 40 million dollars for third place…man that’s gotta hurt! Jeff Tobin legal and political analyst for CNN says this is the worst campaign of the new millennium Ouch!!!

And I wonder if Brent Seaborn, Giuliani’s chief strategist, and the guy in the background, will get any work after this defeat..the worst campagin of the new millennium! I don’t think so..