Brad DeLong wrote: > Y'all should remember that it's not about *you.* It's about undecided, > independent voters. They don't want to see a partisan attack dog. They > want to see somebody who recognizes truth when he hears it, not > somebody so consumed with partisan rage that he can't listen to > anybody else in the room. For that key audience, "John is right" > beats "Senator Obama doesn't understand".
I remembered that. But the "Sen. Obama doesn't understand" is not a blatant political smear (such as "Sen. Obama wants kindergarteners to experience sex first-hand, preferably with himself"). Rather, it sets an undertone, framing everything O. says. It can plague his campaign, dragging it down in the next 5 weeks or so. It's true that the undecided don't like attack dogs, even with lipstick. That's why I think that the Palin bump was a flash in the pan. She's turning into Dan Quayle. If the focus groups and the undecided liked O. better, then that says something for their intelligence. He was clearly more intelligent and less hackneyed, even though I don't especially like what he's using his intelligence for. -- Jim Devine / "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
