Thursday, August 7, 2008

Obama Adviser: 'Celeb' Ads Hurt Him In Polls


Micro-trending polls are stupid - and people who live/die by them are only setting themselves up for needless turmoil.

That said, the quotes were interesting to me....
  1. "One of the great strengths of the Obama campaign has been to not listen to the D.C. chattering class."
  2. "Tad Devine, a top strategist for Kerry who thinks Obama must stay on the high road."
OK, so if the "chattering class" is saying one thing - and a proven, stone loser like Tad Devine is in sync with your "master plan"..... then you would do well to change your friggin' master plan - and fast.

Obama's responses have been too soft (and rare). I've posted this numerous times: if you're getting beat up in public all the time and don't fight back, voters will think you've got no backbone to be president. That's just the way it is. You don't have to be gutter, vicious, or inaccurate to fight back. But you have to do something.

Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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