Is This How Obama Gets Re-Elected? Capitalizing On American's Short Attention Span?
The New York Times article Sell Fast or Die asserts that the tech business is becoming like the movie business. If it doesn't sell quick, and big, dump it.
I think this trend will also affect the next presidential election. I guest hosted for John Phillips on KABC radio this week after Dodger Talk and one of my points (a shameless way to get the phones buzzing) went over exactly as predicted. Considering his dismal approval rating today, callers couldn't believe that I would claim that Barack Obama will sail smoothly to victory in 2012 because the media will make it so.
I'm just postulating. He will blame the natural disasters, the Arab Spring, the Tea Party, etc. to tread water. Then, the perfectly timed campaign will get underway, but no sooner than it has to. It will be designed to "sell big" when it counts. If it doesn't work, it will "die fast" but that's the only shot he has. Like Haley Barbour said on one of the Ricochet podcasts, "he can't run on his record."
The campaign will be like a horror film perhaps. "Rick Perry is an evangelical monster and Barack Obama, warts and all, is the only hope you have America. Only a hillbilly boob would vote for this guy. You're not one of those are you?"
Secretly I think the G.O.P. is in the driver's seat but this type of scenario makes for great talk radio. The problem is, I am afraid it might be true. What needs to be done to counter this? Someone needs to figure it out because it's coming.
Why am I assuming the Rick Perry is the nominee? I just am.
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Oct '10
Re: Is This How Obama Gets Re-Elected? Capitalizing On American's Short Attention Span?
Yep. BO is clearly a great foreign policy president (Bin Laden, Gaddafi); all domestic problems are due to Bush and/or the Tea Party; and anyone voting against the President is an unpatriotic, racist, snake-handling dominionist.
It's only by the coastal atheists pushing this last too hard that the MSM is going to become undone, because of their complete inability to understand religion.
A billion dollars buys a lot of mud. Especially when the press will fling for free.
Jun '10
Re: Is This How Obama Gets Re-Elected? Capitalizing On American's Short Attention Span?
Sell big might work when the product is fresh, but Obama is like week-old baked goods. Not only is he stale, but he's starting to get moldy around the edges.
Jul '11
Re: Is This How Obama Gets Re-Elected? Capitalizing On American's Short Attention Span?
So you expect BO to bank on the masses of uninformed, unintelligent, and easy swayed folks that our educational system has pumped out. There is no question that will be a major tactic but those of the great intellectually unwashed are also very unenthusiastic these days and another stupid speech wont make a difference because people have stopped listening to the man. I expect a much smaller voter turnout among the entitled masses.
Aug '10
Re: Is This How Obama Gets Re-Elected? Capitalizing On American's Short Attention Span?
Hunh ?
What did you say ?
Look ! A squirrel-----------------------------
Jul '10
Re: Is This How Obama Gets Re-Elected? Capitalizing On American's Short Attention Span?
Every time he speaks, bumbling Barry erodes the population of voters who find him credible. In his term he has made the jobs situation far worse, shrunk the labor pool, increased health costs across the market with a program purported to solve health costs and pushed through against the will of the American people.
It's a wonder the Mall is not already decorated in torch and pitchfork wielding taxpayers from the Kennedy Center and State Department to the far corners of Capitol Hill. The man plays golf while pushing the misery index through the roof.
Nov '10
Re: Is This How Obama Gets Re-Elected? Capitalizing On American's Short Attention Span?
Hmmm . . . now what was I going to say . . .
Our short attention span works both for and against him, depending on what's happening at the moment. His problem is that we are very easily bored, which is why we always want the latest and greatest in, well, EVERYTHING. Cars, houses, music, televisions, cell phone (are we really already up to Ipad2 and Iphone 5?), and even politicians.
BHO generated a lot of excitement with his historic nomination and historic election that caused tingles up the legs of certain folks on the left. Where's the excitement now?
Perry generates the most excitement in the announced GOP field, but if a certain female governor of Alaska gets in the race, who do you think will generate the most excitement? She's not yesterday's news, she's "historic" in many ways. Even if she doesn't, at this point, even the dead turtles at the bottom of my pond are more exciting than Obama.
Mar '11
Re: Is This How Obama Gets Re-Elected? Capitalizing On American's Short Attention Span?
Just a wild guess - Alinsky tactics will be used on Mr Perry, or whoever is nominated.
I wish I had more confidence in the US electorate to see through this - wasn't it obvious in 2008, also?
Oct '10
Re: Is This How Obama Gets Re-Elected? Capitalizing On American's Short Attention Span?
Just an odd thought, Obama appears like one of the Disney anamatronic contraptions. The tape just changes to amuse the tourists. Never had any real legs, never will.
Re: Is This How Obama Gets Re-Elected? Capitalizing On American's Short Attention Span?
This is my point. All the negatives written above are true, but there were just as many in 2008. No experience vs. spun experience. Same electorate basically; it will be hard to achieve a different result. Through in some Alinsky techniques against Perry and you got trouble.
David Williamson: Just a wild guess - Alinsky tactics will be used on Mr Perry, or whoever is nominated.
I wish I had more confidence in the US electorate to see through this - wasn't it obvious in 2008, also? · Aug 25 at 2:59pm
May '10
Re: Is This How Obama Gets Re-Elected? Capitalizing On American's Short Attention Span?
What are these photographs exactly? A frat boy with pimped out Lassie? A polo player with a sabre pointed down into the floor? Preppy meets General Franco dress-ups?
Sorry the references (if any) are lost on me, but heaven forbid someone post pictures of me from my youth, including my golden vineleaf motif on a cardinal red toga. (I had the legs for it in those days).
If this is the best the DNC can do, then let's dig out those pics of President Obama when he was deep in his tobacco addiction in the early 1980s when disco died its long drawn out death.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IUYlNU10BMY/Sl8KubNr9yI/AAAAAAAAYqw/_CwMtRaaf7Y/s400/Young-Obama-03.jpg
Edited on Aug 26, 2011 at 1:05amOct '10
Re: Is This How Obama Gets Re-Elected? Capitalizing On American's Short Attention Span?
Joe Escalante
The campaign will be like a horror film perhaps. "Rick Perry is an evangelical monster and Barack Obama, warts and all, is the only hope you have America. Only a hillbilly boob would vote for this guy. You're not one of those are you?"
Secretly I think the G.O.P. is in the driver's seat but this type of scenario makes for great talk radio. The problem is, I am afraid it might be true. What needs to be done to counter this? Someone needs to figure it out because it's coming.
Why am I assuming the Rick Perry is the nominee? I just am. ·
perry should chillax and have a sense of humor about himself. How about some "Erap jokes"? Take something the opposition is using against him, say "creationism" or his recent bernanke comment, and use humor (even at his own expense) to disarm the situation. Then the smears won't be as effective
Nov '10
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Obama can fool some of the people, and in 2008 he fooled almost all of the people, but I don’t think he can do that again. Not even with all the media’s women and all the media’s horses.
Unless that is, Republicans do what they are famous for and nominate a namby-pamby cheeseball RINO who can’t fool anybody.