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发帖数: 29846 | 1 October 25, 2012 | Posted by Doug Johnson
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Well I’ve found my favorite paragraph of the week, in The New York Times of
all places (granted it’s on one of their blogs), penned by Ross Douthat.
Losing campaigns have a certain feel to them: They go negative hard, try
out new messaging very late in the game, hype issues that only their core
supporters are focused on, and try to turn non-gaffes and minor slip-ups by
their opponents into massive, election-turning scandals. Think of John
McCain’s desperate hope that elevating Joe the Plumber would change the
shape of the 2008 race, and you have the template for how tin-eared and
desperate a losing presidential campaign often sounds — and ever since the
first debate cost Obama his air of inevitability, he and his surrogates have
sounded more like McCain did with Joe the Plumber than like a typical
incumbent president on his way to re-election. A winning presidential
campaign would not normally be hyping non-issues like Big Bird and “binders
full of women” in its quest for a closing argument, or rolling out a new
spin on its second-term agenda with just two weeks left in the race, or
pushing so many advertising chips into dishonest attacks on its rival’s
position on abortion. A winning presidential campaign would typically be
talking about the issues that voters cite as most important — jobs, the
economy, the deficit — rather than trying to bring up Planned Parenthood
and PBS at every opportunity. A winning presidential campaign would not
typically have coined the term “Romnesia,” let alone worked it into their
candidate’s speeches.
McCain supporters denied the Obama wave right up until the returns started
coming in. Obama supporters may well get a chance to see the shoe on the
other foot in a couple of weeks.
The whole thing also jibes with the “believe what you are seeing” sense
that has most conservatives upbeat about the chances of a Romney win. All
across the country and especially swing states, the little details are the
ones that the media overlooks, like how Romney/Ryan signs can be seen on
lawns all over the place and Obama/Biden signs are virtually non-existent.
Every neighborhood that I’ve been in lately is at least 5 to 1 for Romney
in signage.
Obama may still pull out a victory, but by all visible measures that appears
less and less likely with each passing day. | T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 2 NYT出现这种文章少有，但是本人觉得O8这些天声嘶力竭是一个策略，就是拼命鼓动基
本盘，不管中间选民了。 | p*******w
发帖数: 12 | 3 In my neiborhood, last president election year very liberals, almost have no
O8 sign. Good sign? Yes
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