a new electoral strategy

[topaz]

Recalling Edwin Edwards' famous quote, that in order to lose re-election he'd have to be "caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy" ....

... anyone know how I could get in touch with the McCain campaign?

(I know, I should ask Soren, but somehow I don't think he'd be enthusiastic about helping me out with this...)

Comments

[lhn.livejournal.com]

Strictly speaking, Obama was comfortably on course to defeat Ryan prior to the scandal. As of the end of May, 2004, Obama was leading Ryan 52-30, which may help explain the party's willingness to dump the latter over the side. (Though not its... unique... replacement strategy.) Granted, I thought that his strategy of "establish an overwhelming lead over the proposed successor to an unpopular departing office-holder of the other party, and then keep it" would be sufficient this time around as well.

(I still think that's the way to bet, but the post-convention bounce of McCain-Palin is better than I'd've predicted they'd be doing at this point. I was expecting an election closer to Clinton-Dole, where the former was 13 points ahead at this point in the cycle.)

Or Obama could try the strategy (http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/29/obamas.first.campaign/index.html) that won him his 1996 seat in the legislature, and see if he can get the signatures that put McCain on the ballot invalidated. :-)

[innerdoggie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, McCain is doing very well right now.

As for the signature strategy. Uhhh.....

Do you think McCain can pull a Bobby Rush?

[lhn.livejournal.com]

If McCain can become the favored candidate of Mayor Daley and John Stroger, there'll be no stopping him, but I have to admit it doesn't strike me as terribly likely. :-)

(I'm not even sure that the latter is actually less likely than the former.)

[innerdoggie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Obama has been successful cultivating both the independent Dems (if such an entity can be said to still exist) and the machine Dems here.

I predict this one will be a squeaker. I'm going to treat it like a ball game and go get my funny hat and start cheering. Go team!