Line of the Day (Obama Campaign Strategy Edition)
Steven L. Taylor
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Monday, November 14, 2011
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“We may just run clips of the Republican debates verbatim. We won’t even comment on them, we’ll just run those in a loop.”—Barack Obama on a potential media strategy for his 2012 re-election campaign.
At the moment, I must confess that that sounds like a reasonable approach.
About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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All the better reason to nominate Gary Johnson, methinks. 🙂
I lol’d
That won’t do anything to dissuade many ill-informed right-leaning voters. The Republicans speak to the id, not the superego. They say things that sound good and appeal to emotion, facts or logic be damned. That’s why the clown car of candidates all get some time in the sun as the frontrunner.
The FP debate sure looked like this, didn’t it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFoyZdO1QRs&feature=player_embedded#!
Newt was such a bright little boy…
President Obama is going to be re-elected and would be even if he were caught showering with 10 y/o boys.
The only question for 2012 is whether the Democrats win back control of the U.S. House. If Nancy Pelosi returns as speaker in 2013, then ever policy discussion between now and then is pointless.
@ SD…
I can’t believe it’s possible for the 2010 election to swing all the way back to Democratic control…but the Republican majority could be weakened…and farces like the Debt Cieling Kerfuffle will be less likely. Hopefully. For the good of the country.
@Anonne:
Freudian Geek Moment:
Slight correction, they speak to the ID (primal desire) and to the Superego (Super-societal control)… now whether they speak to the ego, which emerges in the mediation between the ID and Superego, that’s an entirely different question.
@Anonne:
Fortunately, elections are won and lost in the middle.
@OzarkHillbilly:
General elections that is.