The Hangover After the Big Party

Obama’s Unused (So Far) Message: “Let’s End It.”

Time’s Mark Halperin (whose “The Page” is one of the more useful and appealing of the major news outlets’ blogs, IMHO) noted yesterday that two Obama staffers left Pennsylvania last night sporting “Stop the Drama, Vote Obama” t-shirts.
Now, I’m not sure to which of the associated election dramas the slogan originally referred, but the obvious [...]

“Liberal Media Coverage” Update

Today the Pew Research Center released a survey in which an overwhelming number of Americans said the news coverage of conservative Republican Senator John McCain has been mostly positive. Three times more Americans said McCain’s news coverage had been “mostly positive” (36%) than those who said the coverage had been “mostly negative” (11%).” The [...]

Clinton Ads Add Up

Senator Obama may be ahead in pledged delegates, votes, states, rally attendance, small donors, and money, but he is lagging in one key area, effectiveness of paid advertising. From the phone ad to her current testimonial ad attacking Obama for dissing small towns, God and guns, Senator Clinton’s ads have been more effective.
Here newest [...]

Bittergate

Well, how did the God and gun hater handle the rebuttal to the attack?

- Loveland

Just Words, Just Black

I’ve seen a lot of red hot commentary on cable news, but this clip from MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann about the Ferarro comments about Obama and racial politics may be the reddest, hottest.

As catharctic as this is for a weary Obamaniac, coverage like this is not a victory for Obama. [...]

WWRD

Here’s a communications strategy parlor game for you communications strategy geeks: What would Republican communications strategist extraordinaire Karl Rove do if he were, horror of horrors, working for Senator Hillary Clinton?
While many communications strategists in both politics and the private sector aim tactics at their opponent’s perceived weakness, Rove’s central strategic philosophy [...]

Throwing a Hail Mary at Halftime

Since Super Tuesday, Salon’s Alex Koppelman and others have noted the new messaging coming from the Clinton camp: The Obama campaign is becoming “establishment-oriented” thanks to the big money and endorsements it’s attracting.
Barack Obama as the standard bearer of the establishment.  Hmmm.  I wonder, as Koppelman does, how much luck they’ll have in trying to establish [...]