Fred really needs to find a message that starts to resonate with more voters.
This is not MSM talking points, they are my gut feelings. I just do not see him beating Hillary. A whole bunch of people on this board disagree with me, but if Fred has not been able to engage the primary voters, even though the message is good, how in the world is he going to engage the rest of the general public?
I am looking forward to his appearance on Meet the Press tomorrow, because he is generally very good on the one on one interviews, but he needs to be more than average.
Reading the whole article about the participants is revealing. When talking about their ideals, they almost all by the end of the evening side with Fred, yet why wasn't that enthusiasm there before the talking began. These are engaged voters, presumably they have been paying attention, yet they did not have the enthusiasm for Fred. Why not? I say it is the presentation. Fred MUST change his style. Whether we want to believe it or not, we live in a media world, 30 second sound bites rule the day, and we are not going to change it by getting 51% of the voters to actually read position papers on the web.
Another thing that stood out was the whole groups want of change from the present administration. Every one of these participants voted for GWB in 2000 and 2004, yet they are all tired of him. How does Fred convince the public that he will change things, and not be more of the same? Where is Fred significantly different from GWB?