SEE TO THE LONGHORNS AND AGGIES: LET THE BUCKEYES TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES
How I would schedule Hillary, simple version: Three major appearances in Texas to every one in Ohio.
Reasoning, Longer version: If there's no Texas win, Ohio matters about as much as Argentina. Ohio is an old line Rust Belt State, the kind, outside of Illinois, Obama doesn't win. If you don't carry Ohio with relatively token effort, you were going to get overrun in Pennsylvania anyhow. Texas is truly the break point. She has to salvage some of Galveston/Pasadena and the north burbs of Houston, then take advantage of her newfound border support.
Campaign where the Repubs have been strong. The dems there appreciate the attention. If you just absolutely must go to Ohio, go to something techy or mid-techy to talk about world competition benefiting prepared workers. If you just have to go to Ohio, go to middle schools and talk about your history with kids, show you've been where the rubber meets the road.
Then get back to Texas and tell all the veterans and active duty people about your work to secure health care and ed benefits for the Veterans of Wolfy's occupation force. They appreciate you but need to be reminded.
Oh, finally, the Repubs want you to start talking about Obama's church's mission statement or Michelle's naive thesis. Don't do it! Simplify your health care differences, talk about India and Pakistan being nuclear enemies, the Soviet Nukes being undersupervised and the terrorist beds in Northern Europe. Don't just proclaim you're ready on "day one." Demonstrate your readiness with your superior knowledge.
Finally, and I mean this in the most honorable way, finish every speech by begging for votes. "Now is the hour" "I'm done without you helping me right now" "Please, vote twice and bring five friends". This is no time for subtlety.
As pointed out in SNL last weekend, the press is totally in the tank for Obama. Put your money and effort toward going straight to the people of Texas.
posted by UMRBlog @ 08:58
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I dunno, UMR, I'm no Karl Rove---or Bob Schrum, for that matter, but I'm thinking it's a little late in the game for Hillary to be begging for votes, especially since she was supposed to be "inevitable". I think this just makes her look desperate, which I'm sure she is.
As for the press being "in the tank for Obama"---so what? In the '04 election, Evan Thomas famously crowed that the favorable coverage the press would give Kerry, as opposed to the continual negative drumbeat they would give Bush, would give Kerry 15 points in the election.
hee!hee! If what Thomas said was true, Bush would have won in a landslide without press interference!
The establishment press may have had unbridled power back in the day when there were only 3 networks who all took their cues from the NYTimes, but those days are LONG gone---and thank the gods for it!
PS: SNL is now considered a reliable source for political information? *snork*
Re: SNL
Parody begins with a basis in reality.
Darrell Hammond's Clinton is the best political impression ever, just beating out Rich Little's Nixon.
Dan Akroyd's (sp) Nixon, however, is very underrated. I think it just goes with the thought that he is the most underappreciated SNL member ever.
Come to think of it. Akroyd's Bob Dole was pretty damn good. Norm MacDonald's Dole was just freakin' creepy.
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