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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDoes anyone else suspect that the DNC has been a "game changer" for this election?
It just kinda hit me...I am doubting that we'll go back to the same campaign after this convention.
Or is the Romney campaign and the SuperPacs pulling ads out of toss up states just a feint, a move to distract us from another strategem they have up their sleeve?
I don't want to get too confident, but could it be that the republicans are slowly folding?
tblue
(16,350 posts)They're trying to rig the whole thing so it doesn't matter who the people want to vote for. I can't understand how anyone would vote for a Repub over the party we've been watching on TV this week. But some people are set in stone and get off on being fearful and stingy.
snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)are going to carpet bomb these states. I just hope all the people go out on the road and defend the president.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)CTyankee
(63,926 posts)that the repubs are lying (which is pretty evident) and that the Dems offer more hope and more clear direction forward (unlike the repubs who have NOT made their case to the American people), then the fix is in. People will look at the ads and see the lies and then wonder why the repubs need to lie to them. That would be powerful IMO...
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)loyalsister
(13,390 posts)That could change- improve the ground game.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)deaniac21
(6,747 posts)didn't overshadow the POTUS speech tonight.
gkhouston
(21,642 posts)More likely, he'll begin by acknowledging all the amazing speeches that have happened this week and cite them as an example of Democrats working together. We'll probably end up with half of DU saying they liked Clinton's speech better and half saying they liked Obama's better, and there's nothing wrong with that.
jsmirman
(4,507 posts)We must take the momentum and run with it.
This is essential.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)jsmirman
(4,507 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)That would've been before last night, I think, so after only first night of DNC.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Raine
(30,546 posts)it's going to be a tough fight and I would bet close in the end.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)that's why the Repubs have been working on voter suppression, because they know they can't win if people just go and vote and those votes are actually counted.
We need to make sure this feeling is carried over to getting out the vote.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,388 posts)also the candidates, but as to what effect it is having on non-Dems I am not sure. How many are even watching, I wonder? (I do have my conservative hubby watching with me tonight, so that's one! Well, 2, really. LOL)
karynnj
(59,511 posts)Beachmom posted this article that someone had posted on twitter shows that Kerry did outperform what models would have predicted. Bush's approval rating and the economy gave him a good chance of being re-elected.
That did not count:
- the fact that 911 bonded many people to Bush who had not been there before
- the fact that he and Cheney terrorized people with false alerts because it led people to rally
around Bush
- The Catholic church and corporations knew that the winner could nominate 2+ SCJ - including replacing at least one conservative who was dying. Kerry would never have picked anyone who would vote for Citizens United.
- The media covered his biography, which was - even for a Presidential nominee - extraordinary and limited his direct TV exposure to just the 3 hours of the convention and the debates.
- 23 states had homophobic resolutions on the ballot to get the RW evangelicals out.
- He bowed to the media, party and his advisers in picking John Edwards, who then refused to cooperate with the campaign.
In spite of all of that, had the Republican SoS in Ohio not suppressed the vote by putting fewer machines than were there for the primary, he would have pulled off what might have been the greatest upset in decades.