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Barack Obama 2012 Takes Multiple Pages From GOP Playbook
Get out your crayons, everyone, it's campaign season!
I think it would be awesome if Obama attacked Mitt's faith nonstop til election day.
Starting with Richard Nixon in 1972, and moving on to Ronald Reagan in 1984 and George W. Bush in 2004, Republican incumbents assembled a strategic doctrine that includes the following basic plays: Stress culture, and exploit cultural and regional divisions, especially if doing so helps detract attention from a so-so (or worse) economic record. Declare one's own strength as commander in chief and the opponent's ignorance or weakness (or both) in military and foreign affairs. Paint the foe as out of the mainstream and/or elitist in terms of money, education or both. Highlight wedge issues to expand fissures in the other party. Where possible, speak in sweeping historical terms about the greatness and uniqueness of the country. And evoke symbols of manly recreational endeavor.
In one way or another, Barack Obama already has used all of those, and it is only May.
Get out your crayons, everyone, it's campaign season!
I think it would be awesome if Obama attacked Mitt's faith nonstop til election day.
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