ElKabong
08-09-2011, 11:59 PM
As expected, Team Obama is taking the Low Road. Can't rely on his record, so he's going to the the "kill Romney" route.
You stay classy, Barry....
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/60921.html
The dramatic and unabashedly negative turn is the product of political reality. Obama remains personally popular, but pluralities in recent polling disapprove of his handling of his job, and Americans fear the country is on the wrong track. His aides are increasingly resigned to running for reelection in a glum nation. And so the candidate who ran on “hope” in 2008 has little choice four years later but to run a slashing, personal campaign aimed at disqualifying his likeliest opponent.
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“Unless things change and Obama can run on accomplishments, he will have to kill Romney,” said a prominent Democratic strategist aligned with the White House.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/60921.html#ixzz1Uax4DBSD
You stay classy, Barry....
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/60921.html
The dramatic and unabashedly negative turn is the product of political reality. Obama remains personally popular, but pluralities in recent polling disapprove of his handling of his job, and Americans fear the country is on the wrong track. His aides are increasingly resigned to running for reelection in a glum nation. And so the candidate who ran on “hope” in 2008 has little choice four years later but to run a slashing, personal campaign aimed at disqualifying his likeliest opponent.
...
“Unless things change and Obama can run on accomplishments, he will have to kill Romney,” said a prominent Democratic strategist aligned with the White House.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/60921.html#ixzz1Uax4DBSD