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To me, the message here is that he didn't grow up wealthy and that he's one of us. This plain-spoken commercial attempts to defuse a lot of the misperceptions about him without actually addressing any of them specifically.
It does the job. The meatier stuff will come later.
Alaska 41% Obama - 45% McCain (Rasmussen Jun 16)
Colorado 48% O - 42% M (Rasmussen May 19)
Florida 48% O - 44% M (ARG + Quinnipiac Jun 17)
Georgia 41% O - 51% M ((Rasmussen Jun 4)
Indiana 38% O - 47% M (Ind Legis Insight Jun 1)
Iowa 45% O - 38% M (Rasmussen Jun 10)
Michigan 45% O - 42% M (Rasmussen Jun 9)
Missouri 43% O - 42% M (Rasmussen Jun 3)
Montana 39% O - 47% M (Mason-Dixon May 21)
Nevada 42% O - 44% M (Mason-Dixon Jun 11)
New Hampshire 51% O - 39% M (ARG Jun 15)
New Mexico 47% O - 43% M (SurveyUSA + Rasmu May 18)
North Carolina 43% O - 45% M (Rasmussen Jun 10)
North Dakota 38% O - 44% M (Dakota Wesleyan Apr 3)
Ohio 46% O - 43% M (Rasmu + Quinn Jun 17)
Pennsylvania 52% O - 40% M (Quinnipiac Jun 16)
Virginia 45% O - 44% M (Rasmussen Jun 12)
Wisconsin 51% O - 40% M (SurveyUSA + UofW Jun 16)
So Alaska is as much or more in play as some of these others states (such as Indiana). What I love, looking at the Electoral College map on that site today, is that it shows Obama, if the race were held today, with 344 EVs. In 2004, the highest Kerry ever got based on polls was 332 sometime in July, and that was a bit of an anomaly.
duh.
We will see a lot more of Barack's white family in the coming months, especially in states like the ones where this ad is playing. It's not a bad strategy, though.
The campaign knows they will have the African-American vote locked up with record turnout. Polls show Hispanics leaning his way. What the campaign is afraid of is that lots of whites will not be able to make themselves vote for a black man. The Repugs and Fox will constantly remind people Barack is black while his campaign will show pictures of his white family.
If we can get past the racism that threatens this campaign it could be a record victory for the Dems with BO taking states that have been red for decades.
Acknowledging that race issues exist is not racism. I can guarantee that the Obama campaign was extremely conscious of the use of race in that ad. And that is not a bad thing. BO's candidacy is historic for this country. If we pretend that he will not face any racism we will be sorry when the election is over.
Jimpy...If you haven't noticed....there's a minority guy talking throughout the whole ad!
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YAY!! she's headlining San Diego Pride this year! :-)
Excellent ad, it comes across very sincere.
tragic flaw was that he was not pretty or very charismatic because even by
1968 you had to be pretty to get the media to look at you. And he too was a
threat to their system. Then of course Dicky Nixon pulled his "Southern
Strategy" of getting racist Dixiecrats to move over to the GOP. Much of
where we are today is because of that era.
Since the switch there are some people I never see anymore.
By the way, Hello!
Aren't they guilty of far worse than just opting out? I thought their guilt extended into other areas?
Since those of us plugged in are just vaguely aware of McCain's transgressions then the campaign isn't doing their job of painting McCain with the truth of what he has done. I'm going to look it up, but EVERYONE should know what McCain has done and we shouldn't have to be "searching for the truth." The Obama camp should be working on getting the TRUTH out there.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/17/dnc-in...
"Hey, pull some money out of your pocket for poor old McCain-he is going on government welfare to run!"
Funny, the Republican 'pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps' Party candidate has to used welfare to run his campaign for POTUS.
Pathetic!
He should also have a lot of pull with the Democrats in Congress. He should be their #1 ally. He already has big leads in lots of places and should be a huge fundraiser this cycle and next. If he and his campaign got on the phone right now, they could stop this thing in its tracks.
http://clerkkids.house.gov/laws/
I think you need to look to the so called "leadership" on this issue, not Obama!
Every vote counts.
Take that! McCrazy!
Then everytime there is a swiftboat style attack on Obama, another $25 if i have extra money.
Makes me feel good, anyway.
Try to carve *that* commercial into soundbites, nightly news shows!
By having adverts where the candidate embraces (literally, like puts his hand on the shoulders of) people of different colours, and perhaps even different abilities, sexualities, etc. Okay, it's a 30-second advert, and one of many more to come in the next 182 days, but there was room for at least one person of colour or one disabled person to be in the mainframe not the background, and maybe even a millisecond continuity framegrab of BO's wife and kids. I probably don't fathom the virulent animosity of the states where this advert is being screened, but I hope this isn't the template for all the advertising to come. I just worry that the obama campaign will start running scared, which was at least a major element in the downfall of previous Dem pres. campaigns.
Y'know, I think the Obama campaign knows what they are doing. So maybe you and others could learn to focus less on race and move on to other equally important topics.