Posted by
TommyO on Saturday, July 19, 2008 3:21:12 PM
A while back I harped on the emotion vs issue theme that is carrying the Obamar canidacy. Neat article on the American spectator about the opening of the Florida campaign HQ.
Here is the interesting tidbit: "The crowd, Hard Case
notwithstanding, was mostly a friendly and approachable bunch. So
before the music (if such it was) got too loud for conversation, I
managed to question several people about what it was about Obama that
fetched them in. Most of the answers I got were variations on the theme
of, "He touched my heart." No one said a single specific thing about a
single public policy, but crooned that because of Obama's charisma and
manifest goodness, he would be the one to make everything right in the
areas of energy, education, war and peace, and the country's economic
problems. Clearly the heart rather than the cerebral cortex is the
proper organ through which to reach this bunch." [italics- mine - TommyO]
All of the exposed flips, flops, lies, etc will never touch the base. They are emotionally involved and immune to criticism of the annoited one.
Gotta get to middle America, and that is thru the economy, the economy, the economy!