Vapor Speak- The Selling of a Candidate (or Candidates)

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I posted this at the beginning of the year, and knew that if this was not addressed before the nomination the pugs would be all over it.
And not at the beginning, they would let the race play out (you can't try a knockout punch too far away from the election, too much time to recover) My time spent on research was less than 20 minutes, this story has legs.



2rth2pwr (1000+ posts) Fri Jan-11-08 06:10 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=4038668
Where did the "Yes, we can" and campaign about nothing come from?

Edited on Fri Jan-11-08 06:30 PM by 2rth2pwr
Is it Barak or is it Axelrod??
David Axelrod was Devals' campaign manager and now he runs Obama's.

Devals' campaign theme- "Together we can!"
Obamas' campaign theme- "Yes, we can!"






BOSTON (AP) - Barack Obama's Democratic presidential campaign playbook has some simple yet striking similarities to Governor Patrick's blueprint:
http://www.wpri.com/Global/story.asp?S=7613366&nav=menu20_3

Tell a compelling story about yourself and inspire people who feel left out to take back their government.

And stay on a message of hope and unity.

During the New Hampshire primary campaign, Obama told a New Hampshire audience he was borrowing a line from friend Deval Patrick, urging people to "vote your aspirations."

Patrick insists there's no "playbook," saying the two men believe in similar things, like a robust participatory democracy and grassroots campaigning and governing.

The governor, who plans to campaign for Obama in South Carolina, says he and Obama are "hungry for a change."

Deval Patrick, whom Axelrod served in his successful race to become the first African American governor of Massachusetts last year, Patrick's first campaign
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/14/AR2007021401812.html

"We all said that we could have closed our eyes when Obama spoke it could have been Deval," Johnston said. "To us it was a similar kind of message. It's a message that transcends partisan politics."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/04/16/patrick_obama_campaigns_share_language_of_hope

CROWD: Yes we can! Yes we can!
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec04/obama_7-27.html

ELIZABETH BRACKETT: The crowd in the Chicago hotel ballroom was fired up last March. Their candidate, Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama, had pulled in a remarkable 53 percent of the vote in a seven-way race for the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate.

Even Obama was amazed.

BARACK OBAMA: The conventional wisdom was we could not win. There was no way that a skinny guy from the south side with a funny name like Barack Obama could ever win a statewide race. Sixteen months later, we are here.

And Democrats from all across Illinois, suburbs, city, down state, up state, black, white, Hispanic, Asian have declared, yes, we can!

ELIZABETH BRACKETT: It was a heady night for the 42-year-old state senator. He and his wife Michelle and their two young children watched returns in an upstairs suite never far from a camera lens.

On the hurried trip down to the ballroom, Obama spied his campaign pollster.

BARACK OBAMA: Did you poll this?

POLLSTER: I told David 47 percent.

Barack ObamaBARACK OBAMA: Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. I really do.

ELIZABETH BRACKETT: The next morning, Obama thanked voters for what was an impressive victory. He pulled 93 percent of the African American vote, carried white suburban areas by wide margins, finished a surprisingly strong second in rural downstate and even did well in white ethnic areas in Chicago with a history of voting against minorities.

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