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Alex Steed Sep 15, 2008
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    Alex Steed started this discussion on Sep 15, 2008

    http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/09/dems-mus…:

    Emotion is something Republicans have understood for many cycles. George Bush’s Ohio 2004 closing “argument” Ashley ad, which simply featured Bush hugging a teenage girl who’d lost her mom on 9/11, underscored this expertise in emotional messaging. Re-watch that ad and notice the line toward the end: “I saw what I want to see.” You can’t talk people out of emotional certainty.

    To defuse the Sarah Palin Phenomenon, Democrats need to explicitly give voters permission to both like her as a person and then also not vote for her. If I were scripting the pivot, based on my conversations out in the field and away from the bubble of cable news and online analysis, I’d try something like the following (edit: in Biden’s debate, in stump speeches or voter-to-voter persuasion and possibly in ads):

    “Sarah Palin is very likable. There’s nothing wrong with liking her. But this isn’t a zany sitcom where a friendly, plucky Everywoman with dangerous ignorance on foreign policy gets to be vice president. Americans don’t deserve someone too scared to do a press conference. Fun for a TV show, but running the country doesn’t permit second and third takes when you mess up the scene."

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    Alex Steed replied on Sep 15, 2008

    We need to come back with “emotional narrative”:

    http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2008/09/facts-v…

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    Jane Smith replied on Sep 22, 2008

    I think you all are wasting your time trying to dig up dirt on Sarah. Can’t you guys come to grips that she is a genuine good person seeking to better this country. Does it matter what college she went to…does Harvard always turn out the best politians or the most corrupt? Who cares how much her jacket cost for the RNC! It was a special occasion for her for crying out loud!! Michelle Obama had fashion designers following her around earlier this year and did anyone raise commotion about that! Try to dig up dirt on Sarah Pallin, it’s not going to happen. She has been open about her past on TV News shows. Maybe you all should try watching something other than MSNBC or your liberal shows. You say Obama has experience with Foreign relations…so his trip he took couple months back talking to prime minister here and there make him qualify. I think not! He has no experience! He’s relying on Joe Biden for his experience…Joe might drop out anyways to let Hilliary slide in since the democrats are failing…just admit it, you guys sense good and try to destroy it. I pitty you fools.

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    RuffNReddy replied on Sep 22, 2008

    This isn’t about ‘digging up dirt’.

    It’s about bringing awareness to some people out there who have a ‘gender vs. agenda’ leaning.

    This is an important issue.

    Her agenda belongs in her home. Not in mine.

    Her policies are aimed at dismantling the success of 35 years of very important women’s rights movements. She’s NOT a feminist and neither is McCain or the whole political right.

    I’m not interested in having my president be someone I can chat with over some wine.

    I want my president to be smarter than average.

    Sharper and more attuned to the changing ways of our country…our world.

    Small town idealism does not span coast-to-coast.

    True, it’s time for a woman to be in charge but, her narrow-mindedness and lack of cultural emersion tells me she’s not the one for most of us.

    I’d rather wait than blow our chances for success in the future because, she is not our future.