Democratic Convention and the Republican Brand

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Democratic Convention and the Republican Brand

James Joyner | Sunday, August 24, 2008

National Journal is going to be polling several of us throughout the conventions on various issues. The first question:

Q: What portion — if any — of the Democratic convention program should be devoted to tearing down John McCain and the Republican brand?

Perhaps not surprisingly, the answers broke down quite differently by ideology:

I was in the “About a third” camp (interestingly, the median answer for both Left and Right). My rationale:

Obama’s chief selling point is that he’s not a regular politician. Hope and change and all that. Mudslinging probably hurts him more than McCain.”

The link has an interactive graphic with quotes from other participants. Let’s just say that the degree of negativity they’d like to see isn’t the only variation between bloggers on the Left and Right.

About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.

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