The McCain campaign is giving their votes away to Obama by not being more...

[ytowner]

The bottom line is this: The Democratic Candidiate should be up 8-10 points right now because the Republicans are not well liked at all right now. They picked the wrong candidate against McCain. The GOP may keep control of the White House thank God!

Let me put it this way. The GOP picked the only candidate that could win. If the election excluded the D or R, McCain would dominate Obama by 5-7 points.

[Towntalk]

How do you account for the fact that the election is months away and Obama and McCain are in a statistical tie? And what's with this blood and guts talk like the two men are fighting a blood duel? This kind of talk is turning off more would be voters than it is turning them on.

Why not turn off your in the classroom talk and just rationally tell us why we should support one candidate over the other ... one platform verses the other.

Here you are talking to the voters, not the candidates so please just deal with the issues ... the economy ... the war ... trade ... the meat and potaoes issues that concern us.

[Frank Bellamy, MAP Masters of Applied Politics]

“They must campaign with the intent to draw political blood, because at the present campaign pace the voters will not have time to self imagine a reason why to vote for McCain.”

Should have been stated as-

They must campaign with the intent to draw political blood, because at the present campaign pace the voters will not have time to self persuade a reason why they should vote for McCain.

Voter self persuasion happens in most all major elections because of the voter’s fear of deviating from the (the known) status quo of political leadership into unknown.

[Frank Bellamy, MAP Masters of Applied Politics]

The McCain campaign is giving their votes away to Obama by not being more aggressive?

The McCain’s campaign “Come back line”; for Obama’s up coming Iraq visit; McCain says something referencing 900 Days in his TV Ad?  This line gives the listener the impression that Obama has visited the Middle East before in his official capacity. This also diminishes McCain’s strength in the international affairs arena.   

The McCain Campaign Team must take on a much harder more aggressive in your face type of political campaigning posture. They must campaign with the intent to draw political blood, because at the present campaign pace the voters will not have time to self imagine a reason why to vote for McCain. Presently the campaign is giving their votes away to Obama by not being more aggressive.

In order to shake a guy like Obama, you must campaign on his turf and flex your muscles by being bold in your conduct. This will act to demoralize him and force him to go on the defense.

What do you think?

Frank Bellamy, MAP
Master of Applied Politics
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