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Obama Runs Ad In Pennsylvania, Focused On Jobs
Barack Obama is on the air in Pennsylvania with this spot about plant closings, an apparent play for blue-collar voters:
The ad has already run in Indiana, too. Its low-key pitch, a sharp departure from the stirring oratory in most of his other ads, seems to be part of a pattern of Obama refocusing himself on bread-and-butter issues in order to appeal to working-class voters in the remaining states.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4581608&page=1
April 3, 2008 12:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not an "apparent play", Eric, an EFFECTIVE one.
April 3, 2008 12:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
I caught one of my grandkids with an Obama bumper sticker. I told him not to set foot in my house until he denounced Obama. I then explained to him everything Obama stands for. He left wide-eyed and promised he would not vote for Obama. Another soul saved!
April 3, 2008 12:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
TROLL ALERT...
This is a troll named Gramps from Ben Smith's Politico and it is nasty.
It did the same post at Politico.
April 3, 2008 1:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe your grandkids should disown you. ;)
April 3, 2008 1:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Care to elaborate on "everything he stands for" and why that is so scary?
My soul has not yet been saved, apparently.
April 3, 2008 1:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
My friend was unsure who to vote for, so I showed him Obama's speech on race. After the speech was over, he stood up, wide-eyed, and said he needed for vote for him. Another soul saved!
April 3, 2008 1:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Smart Kid. He figured out that is was best to lie to a crazy old bastard, and get the hell out of there ASAP.
April 3, 2008 1:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
You should be reported for child abuse!
April 3, 2008 1:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
How do Trolls breed, much less have grandkids?
I figured they were too busy under bridges scaring kids to have time to mingle.
April 3, 2008 1:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Note that the title here is also the message:
For Decades
It may seem like a low-key pitch, but it packs a punch. He's not attacking "Bush/Cheney policies"; he's implictly accusing the Clinton administration of having been beholden to the same powerful interests as Republican presidents. The message is that Hillary can't very well promise to change a reality she and her husband had a role in constructing. All that, without explicitly attacking the Clintons at all.
Fair or not, it's a subtle attack, and it's likely to be effective.
April 3, 2008 12:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hmmm "...an apparent play for blue-collar voters..."
Sounds tricky. Whatever will they think of next.
April 3, 2008 1:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not complaining, but didn't TPM post this ad a few weeks ago?
April 3, 2008 1:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Weak, the workers are still howling with laughter after his bowling like a child.
Too funny when he used the kiddie ramp.
April 3, 2008 1:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Another productive addition to the discourse! Thanks!
April 3, 2008 1:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Only an idiot would pick a President based on their bowling skills.
Kind of like picking a President based on how well they throw out a pitch.
April 3, 2008 1:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Or how well that they Tell Fairy Tales about how they defied imaginary snipers.
April 3, 2008 2:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey Pinkystab - You wrote the same post under the name of "Gramps" on another thread.
What gives?
April 3, 2008 1:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey Pinkystab - You wrote the same post under the name of "Gramps" on another thread.
What gives?
April 3, 2008 1:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Relevant excerpt from a recent Frank Rich editorial:
"The war is certainly a bigger issue in 2008 than race. Yet it remains a persistent Beltway refrain that race will hinder Mr. Obama at every turn, no matter how often reality contradicts the thesis. Whites wouldn’t vote for a black man in states like Iowa and New Hampshire; whites wouldn’t vote for blacks in South Carolina; blacks wouldn’t vote for a black man who wasn’t black enough. The newest incessantly repeated scenario has it that Mr. Obama’s fate now all depends on a stereotypical white blue-collar male voter in the apotheosized rust belt town of Deer Hunter, Pa."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/opinion/30rich.html?em&ex=1207368000&en=5bf67eeed9240955&ei=5070
April 3, 2008 1:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
The video of the ad does not play when I click on the center symbol.
April 3, 2008 1:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
I like it. Brings the message home to people who are struggling to keep bread on the table - "I will keep jobs here and will not give in to lobbyists whose interests will result in your jobs going overseas."
And the "For decades now," packs a punch. Obama represents a change. Clinton and McCain do not.
April 3, 2008 1:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think part of what makes Obama such a strong candidate is his mastery, or at least his impressive command, of two different rhetorical styles.
Everyone knows he's capable of stirring oratory by now; he speaks from the mountaintop with lofty, hopeful proclamations, and manages to resonate with his audience all the while, a skill at connection that certainly owes something to his experience in the black church tradition.
But Obama can also talk to people on a much less elevated plane. Watching some of the YouTube clips of him in Pennsylvania, and in this ad, it's striking just how low-key and grounded he is. He's got that flat, Midwestern quality to his voice, and he talks to the audience rather than talking at them. He's able to convey to them, "I'm an ordinary guy, you're ordinary folks, let's have an ordinary discussion about these problems of yours."
Ha! And they said Reagan was the 'great communicator.'
April 3, 2008 2:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
I seriously thought pinkystab was a joke before I read the following comments! Ridiculous!
April 3, 2008 4:37 PM | Reply | Permalink