Gambling On The Pro-Gridlock Vote

The only non-mass murderers in America who are in possession of a lower approval rating than President Bush are Members of Congress. And when people are asked to explain why, one word comes up more than most.
“Gridlock.”
The public hates that gridlock between the executive and legislative branch’s prevents nearly everything from passing, or even [...]

McSame

McCain supporters are giddy about their candidate’s excellent delivery of the pre-fab debate zinger of the evening:
“Senator Obama, I am not President Bush, if you wanted to run against President Bush you should have run four years ago. I will take this country in a new direction.”

Bada bing!
Great line, but it [...]

Time for An Obama Curve Ball?

A little political parlor game for you: What if Barack Obama came out at the beginning of tonight’s debate and said something like this:
You know, John, in our ads and in our speeches, we’ve been talking about each others’ records for months. Now, like it or not, that’s a part of campaigning. [...]

Weapons of Mass Deflection (WMD)

Trailing candidates often try to deflect the charges that are hurting them by changing the subject. So with McCain palin’, McCain-Palin is deflecting charges about the economy by accusing Barack Obama of “palling around with terrorists.”
Palin’s pallin’ accusation refers to Bill Ayers, who was on the run in the 1970s after a bomb he [...]

McCain/Obama Debate #1 (Edited a Bit)

 

 
[via Huffington Post]

Pig in a Poke

If you Google “lipstick on a pig,” but eliminate all sites that mention “Obama,” “McCain” or “Palin,” you get 174,000 hits. The phrase is featured in the Urban Dictionary and on cliché.com. It is used so often in corporate PowerPoint presentations that it probably earns you bonus Business Buzzword Bingo points.
To rush [...]

McCain Ad Exposes Cub Scouts’ Sex Ed Agenda

The McCain ad attacking Obama for promoting a bill that allegedly promotes sex education among Kindergarteners would be startling if it weren’t, as Factcheck.org found, “simply false.” There were only a couple of minor problems Factcheck.org discovered with McCain’s claims: 1) it wasn’t Obama’s bill and 2) it didn’t promote sex education.
According to [...]

Failin’ On Palin’

As we’ve been saying for a long time, Senator McCain is doing a good job baiting Obama supporters to take shots at Palin on issues that, by the end of the exchange, make McCain look best. For example:

• McCain attacks Obama on experience. Obama supporters say “Palin has less.” Days of vigorous rebuttals [...]

McChange?

Senator McCain has no choice really. When the current Administration is the most unpopular in recent history, you have to try to run on change.
But if Senator McCain successfully sells the McChange pitch he made in last night’s speech, it will go down as one of the greatest feats of PR smoke and mirrors in [...]

On Pilin’ On Palin

There are so many message directions Obama could take on the whole Palin front. Troopergate. Experience. Earmark hypocrisy. Family demands. But sacrifice is the essence of strategy, so he should take a pass on all of those tempting messaging paths, so those issues don’t drown out his most compelling message [...]