Ground Pounders
Polls and punditry grab everybody’s attention, but the real story of this election is the Obama ground game to which the media are just waking up.
No surprise to anyone who has been following the cross-country tour of the guys from fivethirtyeight.com, e.g., this visit to northern Virginia. But now even David Broder is catching on, and Marc Ambinder points to a message about how important 845,252 (the number of shifts for which volunteers are being sought) is to the Obama campaign.
Posted: October 23rd, 2008 under Ground Game, Obama.
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Comment from Moose Thumpkins
Time: October 23, 2008, 4:01 pm
Bye Bye Reaganomics and Bye Bye McLaska …
It’s a tough week for Republicans, beyond the increasingly bad poll numbers for the McCain-Palin ticket and down ballot Republican candidates across the country.
First, Colin Powell shattered John McCain’s claim to being a more capable president than Obama. Then, Hockey Mom Caribou Barbie gets caught with her skirt down in a Neiman Marcus dressing room while holding a $150,000 check from the Republican National Committee to buy fancy new duds. And not even the RNC could stomach Rep. Michelle Bachman’s call for a witch hunt against anti-American members of Congress and cut off its financial support for her re-election. ( saw this on Chris Mathews and I immediately emailed the GOA)
Finally, Greenspan knee-caps the McCain campaign’s call for even less market regulation. Beyond this – and perhaps more importantly – he did us all a favor by pounding the last nail in the coffin of Reaganomics. That’s the silly notion that if you make the rich richer by leaving them alone and unregulated, the poor and middle class will somehow be able to scramble for leftover bacon drippings and thus fare better in the world.
Reaganomics never made sense, never worked and, as an idea, should have been aborted before the idea was born as tax and regulatory legislation. The so-called “Laffer Curve” and Chicago school of economics on which Reagan’s policies were based has come a cropper along with the global economy and financial system.
Meanwhile, the rest of us are left with Mac-and-Cheeze dinners, food bank handouts and unemployment checks. As usual, it is the middle class and poor paying the price for the “flaw” Greenspan discovers too late to do any good.
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