Is it like that everywhere with the ads, or just the dreaded battleground states?
Yeah it's like that here too, and it's non freaking stop. This is a totally new experience for me. Michigan generally misses out on presidential ad fights altogether since we're usually so pro-Democrat. I mean heck, the last time this state was in play, I was 13 years old lol... so it's totally crazy to see all these ads all of the sudden as well as the personal appearances of the candidates popping up in our state everywhere. All I can say is that I'm so glad I don't have a land line phone (cell phones ftw!). I have friends that get harassed by pollsters and those automatic campaign messages non freaking stop.
While Hillary as a possible VP pick had good-idea/bad-idea issues, Joe Biden? WTF? Even if he decided no Hillery, he couldn't find someone else besides Biden?
Yeah, I have to agree with this. I totally don't understand the reasoning with that pick, especially when the whole entire theme of your campaign is "Change." When the one executive-like decision that you get to make (picking the VP) is to pick one of the oldest, left wing, dudes in the Senate, it kind of undercuts that message that you want to shake up the establishment. I think this is why McCain has been able to co-opt Obama's change message so well, because he actually did pick a new face and outsider.
I mean, I get why Obama didn't pick Hillary (because let's face it, having two Clintons to manage during a campaign would be like herding cats), but you'd think he would have picked someone younger like Evan Bayh or female like Kathleen Sebelius.
But back to your topic - The Palin attacks and the whole "OMG dumb Rednecks" attitude coming from the Dems is mind boggling to me. They really don't seem to get it.
No they don't. I thought they'd learned their lesson from the Kerry campaign. Obama was doing really well staying out of the class warfare until Palin was announced, and then the press, the blogosphere and the Obama supporters went batshit crazy. It's like they saw that she was from Alaska, was a mom and hunted moose and just couldn't stop themselves from being total jackasses.
Why haven't they hired you yet, Pris?
LOL, I suspect that I'd be too middle America/rednecky for them.
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Yeah it's like that here too, and it's non freaking stop. This is a totally new experience for me. Michigan generally misses out on presidential ad fights altogether since we're usually so pro-Democrat. I mean heck, the last time this state was in play, I was 13 years old lol... so it's totally crazy to see all these ads all of the sudden as well as the personal appearances of the candidates popping up in our state everywhere. All I can say is that I'm so glad I don't have a land line phone (cell phones ftw!). I have friends that get harassed by pollsters and those automatic campaign messages non freaking stop.
While Hillary as a possible VP pick had good-idea/bad-idea issues, Joe Biden? WTF? Even if he decided no Hillery, he couldn't find someone else besides Biden?
Yeah, I have to agree with this. I totally don't understand the reasoning with that pick, especially when the whole entire theme of your campaign is "Change." When the one executive-like decision that you get to make (picking the VP) is to pick one of the oldest, left wing, dudes in the Senate, it kind of undercuts that message that you want to shake up the establishment. I think this is why McCain has been able to co-opt Obama's change message so well, because he actually did pick a new face and outsider.
I mean, I get why Obama didn't pick Hillary (because let's face it, having two Clintons to manage during a campaign would be like herding cats), but you'd think he would have picked someone younger like Evan Bayh or female like Kathleen Sebelius.
But back to your topic - The Palin attacks and the whole "OMG dumb Rednecks" attitude coming from the Dems is mind boggling to me. They really don't seem to get it.
No they don't. I thought they'd learned their lesson from the Kerry campaign. Obama was doing really well staying out of the class warfare until Palin was announced, and then the press, the blogosphere and the Obama supporters went batshit crazy. It's like they saw that she was from Alaska, was a mom and hunted moose and just couldn't stop themselves from being total jackasses.
Why haven't they hired you yet, Pris?
LOL, I suspect that I'd be too middle America/rednecky for them.