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Posted at 2:02pm on Jun. 10, 2008 "YEAAARRRRGH!": Obama's 50 State Strategy is a joke.
Is Barry really as clueless as Howard Dean?
By Mark Kilmer
We've heard a lot of blather about how the changing electoral dynamic favors Obama playing ball in the once-upon-a-time GOP strongholds: Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado, Nevada, etc. It's the rebirth, the redemption of Howard Dean's old 50 State Strategy.
I like the notion of Barry throwing money at Mississippi and Colorado in earnest hopes of winning their electors and thus the Presidency, and thus his face on the $7-bill. But it's not going to happen.
Charlie Cook says to our Dem buddies, dream on. Although he believes that Colorado and Nevada are possible take for Barry, he calls the indiscriminate grab for 50, "cliché":
[P]residential campaigns are pass-fail, and pass is defined as winning 270 electoral college votes. Ask former Vice President Al Gore about moral presidential victories.
With 270 electoral votes the definition of success, "50-states" isn't a strategy, it's a cliché.
Sure, a candidate might give some modicum of attention to all 50 states; the appearances are important. But if that candidate spends significant resources in the 20-25 states that are a lock for him or his opponent, he will look pretty foolish when his top priority states run shy on money down the final stretch.
Gore's "moral Presidential victory" was that he could not even win with hypothetical votes (chads, dimples, impressions) being counted by partisan Democrats in Florida. He lost. But we're digressing.
Stu Rothenberg does not even put much credence in the "Obamamania puts States in play" argument.
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Posted at 2:01pm on Mar. 28, 2008 Speak now ...
By absentee
No seriously, speak now. Howard Dean has had it with the Battle of the Blands, calling for superdelegates to name that tune by July 1st.
Says Dean, "Well, I think the superdelegates have already been weighing in. I think there’s 800 of them and 450 of them have already said who they’re for. I’d like the other 350 to say who they’re on between now and the first of July so we don’t have to take this into the convention."
In a different interview Dean cited demoralization of the base in the nigh epic primary fight, suggesting that "supporters should keep their mouths shut about this stuff on both sides because that is harmful to the potential victory of a Democrat."
Shut your mouths ... now there's a fundraising flyer I'd like to see.
