The Key To Victory for Barack Obama - path of 7 weeks

[deadlyaj]

Its time to realize that this behavior the republicans of snatching up the news cycles with distractions.

“Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.”
General George S. Patton

Time to deploy the secret weapon.

Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton.

50 or so more days of news cycles left and we cant let the republicans hijack them.

DONT BE AFRAID TO GO AFTER THESE PEOPLE BARACK!

[DangerDave921]

1. what is your advice?

Put Bill and Hillary out there 24/7? Why?

also, I'm guessing Hillary has some mixed feelings about who she wants to win this year.

[Sensitivity]

2. Jimmy Carter: Hill as V.P. "Worst possible mistake" -- also applies to Hill as main surrogate

Hillary Clinton demonstrated over and over that she feels she should be the NOM.

She worked hard for it over many years. She can't help what she feels.

I she really had a passion for an Obama victory she:

1. Would have "United" the Party before the convention so that the FOCUS was on Obama/Biden not Bill&Hill
2. She would have done the standard "take-back" of her "Just a Speech" smeers and GUT McCain for using her in his ADS
3. She would have ripped-up Palin like a Tigress when she dared claim SHE was taking up Hillary's mantle

It is totally miss-guided to depend on the Clintons to save the campaign. Almost suicidal.

[samuraiguppy]

4. you can see right through the bull

Hillary's sights are on 2012. We can't trust her.

[Awsi Dooger]

3. Obama needs to get off the defensive, that's for sure

Every time I get home and turn on the cable programs they are running a clip with Obama trying to explain something. It wasn't supposed to be this way after 8 years of Bush. Obama needs to watch Bill Clinton's convention speech and apply the devastating breakdown of Democrats vs. Republicans on all the basic economic results of the past 16 years. If we keep debating pigs and Palin that's a win for McCain hour by hour.

I never thought I'd see the day that McCain is favored on Intrade, but that popped up today. My friend and I played more on Obama. What the hell. We already had some from a few days ago, averaging 53. I still think it's decent value.

The problem now is Obama's weakness in states like Ohio comes into play, the rural areas. As long as he maintained a national lead of 2-3 points, the individual states will take care of themselves. But at dead even nationally there's question whether the vital swing states will tilt somewhat red compared to the nation itself. That was always Hillary's case, that states like Florida and Ohio were more demographically friendly to her. My Excel models always indicated she was about a half point better than Obama in terms of where the popular vote needed to be to secure at least 270 electoral votes.

If Obama finds his game and starts running effective commercials, he should get a bit of a recoil in the polls. The country still prefers to vote blue in 2008.