Showing posts with label campaign. Show all posts
Showing posts with label campaign. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Clinton Keeps Losing: See What Happens When Candidate Makes the Campaign Nasty?

Is Senator Clinton learning anything from the way that Senator Obama is running his campaign?

Here's a hint for her: being positive and staying on topic win elections; name calling, accusations that she is also vulnerable to, and negative campaigning will lose elections left and right. And that's what happened. She lost Wisconsin and Hawaii because Obama outperformed her, and didn't take the bait that she threw at him over and over.

And get rid of that shrill voice. It's like hearing someone scrape their fingernails across a chalkboard. No one likes it.

Oops, did I say that out loud?

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Edwards and Obama Employ Their Wives to Attack Hillary's Positions: Canidates' Families Are Getting Into It

John Edwards and Barak Obama have been taking a back seat to their wives lately, allowing them to go after Hillary Clinton's positions themselves.

Are Mrs. Edwards and Mrs. Obama running for President themselves? It sounds an awful lot like they are, telling their husbands to shut up and stand aside while they take care of Hillary as well as their other opponents.

Elizabeth Edwards attacked Obama's "holier-than-thou" attitude on Iraq, and Clinton on her "lack of leadership on health care and Iraq."

Michelle Obama went after Clinton's example of family: "If you can't run your own house, you certainly cannot run the White House." But she has also joked about her husband's big ears, his not putting the butter away, his funny name, and so on. Analysts aren't sure of what to make of her.

I'm waiting for Bill Clinton to jump in on this so that the three-way dance will be complete.

Seems like the spouses of the candidates are really getting into this campaign, which is a little unusual. And the candidates are not returning fire, either, ignoring the barbs coming from the candidates' families.

It's been quite a while since the Democratic side has been this interesting in a Presidential campaign.