Obama: Retooling after the Palin bounce

MSNBC ^ | September 16, 2008 | Domenico Montanaro

[NewMediaFan]

The retooling of the Obama message is the focus of this Washington Post story: "After a string of tactical successes by McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, over the past two weeks, the Obama campaign sought to regain its footing on Monday. The shift followed a series of internal meetings, including a rare Sunday evening session at the campaign's Chicago headquarters that Obama attended. Advisers reinforced the division of labor in the days ahead: Obama will articulate the campaign's broader message of ‘change’ and outline how the Democratic ticket will govern, while Biden will deliver attacks against the GOP ticket, drawing on his 30-year-old relationship with McCain to undercut the Arizona senator's standing, especially among working-class voters."

More: "The Obama campaign is seeking to address a range of festering problems, including the candidate's persistent underperformance among female voters, especially the older ones. It rolled out a women's outreach effort Monday, led by scores of prominent female entrepreneurs, athletes and politicians, including former secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright, cosmetics entrepreneur Bobbi Brown and Yahoo! Inc. President Sue Decker.”

“The women will act as surrogates for Obama, advocating his support for issues such as equal pay, expansion of family leave and reduction of health care costs. Prominent women also are flooding the airwaves on Obama's behalf, including Sen. Claire McCaskill (Mo.), Govs. Janet Napolitano of Arizona and Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas, and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.), a former Hillary Rodham Clinton backer."

[NewMediaFan]

"The Obama campaign is seeking to address a range of festering problems.."

ouch

[jersey117]

Retooling by taking his teleprompter on the road? This guy’s a joke.

[xcamel]

Just exactly how many more “tools” can the MSM come up with?

[Corin Stormhands]

"The Obama campaign is seeking to address a range of festering problems.."

Too bad Hillary's not there to put some ice on it.

[P8riot]

"The Obama campaign is seeking to address a range of festering problems.."

Nothing a new set of candidates won't fix....... But then again, maybe not.

[Always Right]

It rolled out a women's outreach effort Monday, led by scores of prominent female entrepreneurs, athletes and politicians, including former secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright

LOL, Madeleine Albright connects with the average woman so well. Why not send Helen Thomas out there too?

[Thane_Banquo]

If it was this easy to get him off message before, I think Johnnie Mac won’t have a problem getting him off message again. All they need to do is attack his allies in the media and he’ll start having a hissy fit again.

[Always Right]

Just exactly how many more “tools” can the MSM come up with?

Seems like their supply of 'tools' is almost unlimited.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

He already was a tool

[RonF]

Sen. Obama has never won a difficult election. He won his first election to the Illinois State Senate after he successfully challenged his primary opponent's nominating papers' signatures. In Cook County winning the Democratic nomination is tantamount to election. After that he played the game with the Machine and therefore had it's support, which pretty much gets rid of any challenges. When he ran for the Senate the Illinois Reflublicans pretty much shot themselves in the foot, then emptied the gun into it, then reloaded and emptied the gun into their other foot. Their original candidate and primary winner got caught up in a scandal; his divorce papers became public and his wife, whom you may know as 7 of 9 from Star Trek: The Next Generation, alleged that he tried to get her to have sex in a Paris club with someone else while he watched. Due to other scandals and criminal convictions at that point the Illinois Reflublicans didn't have a party chairman for 30 days. They finally imported Alan Keyes from Maryland to run against Obama. Now, regardless of what you think of Mr. Keyes there's no way he was going to win a Senate seat in Illinois. So Obama walked into the Senate. Now, finally, he's in a real fight.

[jersey117]

Does his outreach to women not include his wife?

[dirtboy]

“The women will act as surrogates for Obama, advocating his support for issues such as equal pay,

This one will blow up in his face, considering women working for the Obama campaign make much less than men, whereas women working for McCain make slightly more than men. I can see the McCain ad now: "Senator Obama talks a good game regarding equal pay for women, but apparently thinks that talk shouldn't apply to his own campaign. Support a candidate who actually pays his women fairly, and put a woman on his ticket."

[Thane_Banquo]

McCain has found Obama’s weakness: His own narcissism. Obama feels like he has to answer every single question about his abilities, so if you go after him in anyway, he starts playing defense hardcore, and gets off message.

Obama’s other weakness is his liberal base. McCain showed that all you have to do is come out with a conservative position that the vast majority of the electorate agree with us on, but runs counter to leftist orthodoxy, and the Obamaniac kooks come out. I expect the Born Alive issue to feature more prominently going forward.

[Jeff Chandler]

"I know all about festering problems."

[NeoCaveman]

Nothing a new set of candidates won't fix....... But then again, maybe not.

Yup. Replacing Obama with Hillary might just right their ship.

Replacing Biden with a potted plant wouldn't hurt either.

[proudpapa]

NEWSFLASH:

Palin was a huge hit, not a bounce.

[longtermmemmory]

the drive by media is fanatically calling this “a bounce”

bounce implied temporary.

bounce implies obama is comming back.

SURGE shows obama is finished.

I have never seen such solidity around conservative circles. People are talking AROUND the MSM blockade.

[allmendream]

Actually, according to the divorce testimony, Mr. Ryan wanted to have sex with his wife in the sex club while (presumably) other people watched. Either way, what a loser.

[Battle Axe]

The Democratic party is UNHINGED.

There isn’t time to fix the hinge........

[HIDEK6]

his wife, whom you may know as 7 of 9 from Star Trek: The Next Generation, alleged that he tried to get her to have sex in a Paris club with someone else while he watched.

If he had been a rat, this would have been enough to get him elected.