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Originally Posted by Steve19
I think that McCain is grabbing a clear edge early on to define the debate of ideas. Obama better add something of substance to his "third term argument".
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I agree with this. The Obama campaign is doing a bad job of honing in the details of this claim right now. One of the problems, of course, is that the McCain campaign has not released many specific details either. They've gone with the classic: "big government," "tax and spend" and, hilariously, "Jimmy Carter," to which the Obama campaign could point out that the Bush admin has made government huge, has borrowed-and-spent.
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If I were Obama, I would wait until October and then unleash an incredible "which McCain are we to believe" campaign, showing McCain flipping and flopping on various issues. There's a lot out there. Then you catch him in the final debate just like Ronald Reagan did, "uh, John, there you go again."
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COMPLETELY agree. This is a gimmie, IMO.
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From the marketing angle, I think the early lead has to go to McCain. He is doing just fine.
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We'll see. The argument is that he should be much
further ahead than tied up at this point. If Obama gets anywhere close to the $100 million mark that some are predicting (
TheHill.com), it will be hard to consider that Obama has been anything but successful as well.
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Originally Posted by MuckFich06
Well, McCain's had 3 months and Obama's had 3 [days] in general election mode.
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That's the rub. We'll see how this progresses.
My feeling is that, with so many young voters - the youngest voters dont even remember the first Bush, let alone Reagan - the Carter references and/or the "tax and spend" and "big government" claims will not be nearly as effective as they may have been in past years, especially on the heels of the high-spending Dubya administration.