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Obama content to stay local and low-key
Barack Obama's presidential campaign can hardly believe its luck this week. Coming off a well-received convention where 40 million TV viewers saw Obama's acceptance speech, the Democratic nominee made three nightly appearances in battleground states that each drew 14,000 or more people.
Meanwhile, the start of the Republican convention was blown off course by Hurricane Gustav and questions surrounding vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
All of which helps explain why Americans outside a few heartland industrial states may hardly be aware that Obama is campaigning this week. The campaign is so satisfied, aides say, that he's making no effort to shake things up or to make national news. There are no new proposals or new lines of attack on Republican John McCain.
Obama spent all of Tuesday out of public sight after cutting short his Labor Day speeches in deference to Gustav's victims. After all, there's an old saying in politics: If your opponent is self-destructing, don't get in his way.
McCain has hardly self-destructed, of course, and he may rebound quickly with some good events at the convention in St. Paul. For the moment, however, Democrats could hardly have hoped for a better one-week run. continue
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Winning it Locally
I have been thinking about all this drama that have taken off since McCain's VP pick on Friday. We all know what is going on and if you don't know, just read here.
Through all of this, you need to keep the perspective of what is really going on. McCain has to justify his pick due to lack of vetting. As things come out daily, this is just more adjustments that the McCain Campaign needs to deal with, but we need to remember how this race is won.
For Obama, it started in Iowa. Then it was New Hampshire. We went to Nevada, then South Carolina. Super Tuesday came and went with a draw, then 12 state wins in a row. Meaning the general election is won state by state, just like the primaries, only everyone votes on the same day, November 4th.
While the Republican Convention is going on, Obama and Biden are being greeted by record crowds in the all important swing states. So remember, even though we hear the national noise, politics in the end is always LOCAL and this means getting your message across to the local press, something that Obama has been brilliant doing since pre-primary days.
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McCain cancels CNN interview after that disastrous Tucker Bounds interview
Tucker Bounds was interviewed, yesterday by CNN's Campbell Brown. Brown repeatedly tried to get Bounds to give one decision that Palin made in regards to foreign policy since Bounds was bragging about her "supposedly" credentials. Well, you decide from the video below. My take, Bounds got an "F" for trying.
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And as I listen to the cable desks clerks chirp away in St. Paul, Minnesota, Andrea Mitchell of NBC/MSNBC said, "A Republican Party that doesn't want the President at the Party".
Ummmmm. Team Obama, that sounds like an "AD LINE" to me. Just sayin.........
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Backstage Pics w/Barack from the Obama Blog
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Absence of Bush and Cheney cheers Republican delegates......................
PHOTO: The image that proves McCain has lost this one, big time........................
Levi Johnston to join Palin family at convention..................................
Sarah Palin controversy stokes Mommy War......................................
Poll: Obama hits 50 percent mark............................................
Meanwhile, Obama Doing Everything Right.............................................
How Liberman got kicked out of the GOP..........................................
and read Morning Break, here.....................................................
Obama's new ad, "Same"
Obama, Biden tomorrow
Obama: New Philadelphia, Dillonvale, OH
Biden: Sarasota, FL
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