On Jan 7, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Charles Brown wrote:
I'm trying to remember whether O's presidential campaign strategy and tactics made any sense to you.
They did. Evoke "change" in a vague way to appeal to the maximum number of people without getting specific enough to alienate all that many. Rely on the capacity for self-deception among "progressives" and boost it with a rise in black turnout based on racial pride. It worked very well. The guy is a great politician.
The Rick Warren and Republican-friendly stuff fits in nicely with Adolph Reed's theory that the Dems aim for a party realignment that would marginalize the far right Republicans into a loony rump formation, while holding onto the liberal wing of the Ds because they're naive, and have nowhere else to go. The more I think about it the more the "concession" on tax breaks makes sense in that context.
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