Obama Success: Working Harder, Smarter, Than McCain

By Cernig

Barack Obama has been doing some door-to-door canvassing in Ohio suburbs, in an astute bit of political theater which will help dispel the silly notion he's more elitist than John "Eight Houses. Especially when McCain and "Hockey Mom" Palin didn't think of it first.

And, notes Ari Melber, Obama's doorstep talking points seem to be all economy all the time.

Obama's camapign has been tight and organised, as this little bit of old-style campaigning points up, while his opposite number's camp has been disorganised, often sending confused messages. Now the McCain campaign are, apparently, going to hit the reset button and start again afresh.

“The national media has written us off.,” McCain says in excerpts released by the campaign. “Senator Obama is measuring the drapes, and planning with Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid to raise taxes, increase spending, take away your right to vote by secret ballot in labor elections, and concede defeat in Iraq. But they forgot to let you decide. My friends, we’ve got them just where we want them.”

Allies are calling this “hitting the ‘reset’ button” on the campaign, with McCain reemerging after a long Sunday strategy session with a feisty tack that uses candor and humor, at a time when his rallies have become known for raucous rage and clumsy attacks.

That'll be the national media that includes Bill Kristol at the NY Times, Drudge and Halperin at Time then? All of those and more are ready, willing and able to boost McCain's relaunch in the national spotlight. (Although Kristol has ruffled some feathers at the McCain camp by calling them all incompetents.)

But with the McCain team enmired in base sliming when he originally said he wouldn't go there and Obama out-performing (and more crucially out-working) his opponent at the most basic techniques of campaigning, it's difficult for me to see how a new roll-out at this late stage could possibly be a game changer. It smacks more of desperation in GOP-Land.

Comments

[kouji]

this is a brilliant move. while the other side is disorganized, the obama campaign continues to impress. and what i like about this is that i don't see any negative campaigning in relation to this move. it's positive, basically the candidate going to people's homes personally, in order to convince them of his credentials.

it also points to a certain confidence on the part of obama, in that he's willing to face unknown voters, outside their homes, with the press watching to see how he handles things.

well done.