PrintOctober 17, 2008
Will an angry electorate hand the election to Obama?
I sense a very angry electorate, but not a particularly nihilistic one. They know they have been kept in the dark and been fed a diet of compost about the anointed one -- and about a lot of other things. Also I used to participate in several focus groups a year, though never one about politics. Hence I tend to distrust them. It suspect is too easy for one loudmouth to hijack the group and get it saying all kinds of crazy things. I think Obama may once again be overplaying his hand. He's been bombarding cable TV with his tax and health care ads. While those two ads might have proven effective in front of a focus group, I suspect their saturation coverage has a boomerang potential. An awful lot of people watch channels like Animal Planet, Bravo, Versus, H&G, the Food Network, because they consider such channels a safe haven from the political fray. For the last...(Read Full Article)
