President Obama may be finally finding the right groove for his re-election message.
Yesterday, in a speech in battleground state Ohio, he leveled with the voters on two points
1. "If you want to give the policies of the last decade another try, then you should vote for Mr. Romney."
2. "There is a stalemate in Washington over two fundamentally different views of which direction America should take. Only you can break that stalemate."
Polls show that voters still blame Bush more than they blame Obama for the economy -- so pushing the first point is a winner.
The
second point is equally important: "Only you can break the stalemate."
Obama can't do it alone. He must have a Congress that at least will
get out of the way, compromise on the really important issues, and
occasionally even cooperate.
Ralph
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Republicans are pushing hard on the opposite argument, that Obama has had 3 and 1/2 years to improve the economy. So the fault is his.
ReplyDeleteThis obscures Bush's blame, distances themselves from the prior Republican failure, and points the finger at Obama.
So it's a choice of which point of view you're going to believe. And the Republicans' wealthy friends are going to pump the money into the SuperPacs to keep those ads going 24/7 until November.
Even if you think Obama's right, how much will the other view just seep into your unconscious and determine how you think about it -- that's the question.