Great job of summing up what's happened these last few weeks after the Palin announcement.
As I noted here, I've never seen a campaign where so much comparison was done between the top of one ticket and the bottom of another. That itself says a lot about the top half of the Dem ticket.
As I noted here, I've never seen a campaign where so much comparison was done between the top of one ticket and the bottom of another. That itself says a lot about the top half of the Dem ticket.
Quotes:
Obama's toughest challenge has always been to connect with working-class swing voters. So attacking the poster child for small-town values, Sarah Palin, was a bad strategy.
When McCain chose her, the Obama campaign's first response was to ridicule the size of her town. Then the candidate himself began referring to her as a "former mayor" when she is in fact a sitting governor.
When she retaliated (justifiably) by mocking his stint as a organizer, the Obama camp was clearly rattled. Obama himself actually began arguing about the importance of community organizing. His supporters amplified this cry - claiming Palin's attack was a racist slur and passing around e-mails titled "Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor."
Meanwhile, the rest of the country was probably wondering what being a community organizer has to do with being president.
Alaska? they sneered. It has the population of Las Vegas! Funny how the coastal elite only sneers at red states with small populations. Howard Dean hailed from a blue state with almost the same population as Alaska and was a national phenomenon and front-runner for the presidency. Joe Biden's Delaware has a similarly small population - but no mocking was forthcoming there.
So now he is weighted down with more baggage as he works to convince an important voting bloc that he and his party don't hold them in contempt.
More in yer' face @ The Pantheon Journal.
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