Whoever does become the Democratic nominee had better plan to win the general election. If they screw it up, they will become the most hated political figure in Democratic circles for years, like Mike Dukakis only 1000x times worse. If you can’t manage beat one of these clowns in the wake of Mr. 24%’s reign of error….
Nobody listens to me, but it’s probably a decent moment to remind the various presidential campaigns that if they get the nomination and lose the general election, they will become the most hated figures in the Democratic party.
Fair or not, that’s the way it is. Mike and Walter won’t even ask you to their parties.
As I wrote before, whoever does get the nomination had better plan to win or they will deservedly become the most hated figure in Democratic politics.
Just want to send a gentle reminder to Obama, Axelrod and Plouffe of what the rest of their life will be like if they don’t get their act together in the next eight weeks.
If two of the smartest people on the political Internets cannot discern any identifiable “clear message” coming from the Obama campaign how will the typical low/medium information voter figure it out?
Josh Marshall:
From Obama, honestly, I don’t sense a really clear message. There are attacks on McCain, some of which are quite good. There are positive uplifting commercials. And there are ads/messages targeted to particular states — like Yucca Mountain in Nevada and the DHL layoffs in Ohio. But it’s hard for me to come up with a clear cut Obama message in way that it’s pretty simple for me to do with McCain. Even the ‘change’ message, which is the basis of Obama’s campaign, seems much more diffuse to me than it was during the primaries.
…the central problem for the campaign is that nobody knows what Obama stands for. It’s a perennial problem for Democrats, but I think it may be an even bigger problem this time. The hope and change theme was galvanizing in the beginning but it isn’t enough to sustain full campaign. What was once inspiring has become a fog.
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