I've been in campaign meetings. Sometimes the atmosphere is grim. Your side is down and you're looking to turn things around.
The pollster goes down the list of issues tested. Health care? Nope. They hate your stand on that. The economy? Thumbs down. Foreign policy? Nobody cares anymore.
Then, finally, something that works. An assistant at the polling shop throws in a question about campaign contributions by foreigners. Turns out most voters don't like them. They don't think it's an important issue, but, hey, nothing else works. So let's go with it.
This or something like it seems to have taken place at Team Obama Central sometime in the past few weeks.
Michael Barone - Hispanic district going Republican?
Amazing! Here’s a poll (by a firm unknown to me) showing Republican challenger Ruth McClung leading four–term Democratic incumbent Raul Grijalva 39%-37% in Arizona 7. This district was designed to be Arizona’s second Hispanic majority House district (it was 54% Hispanic in 2000) and to be safe Democratic (it voted 57%-42% for Barack Obama in 2008 and 57%-43% for John Kerry in 2004). So it would be amazing if rocket scientist McClung (yes, apparently she actually is a rocket scientist) won here.
David Freddoso - Barney Frank: Tea Partiers have tied me to the railroad tracks!
"The Tea Party Express thinks that it has me tied to the tracks. The right-wing is readying its engines. Fox News and talk radio are ready to call the play-by-play."
Julie Mason - Obama fields friendly questions at GW gathering
Someone who sent a question over Twitter, asked why people don't remember that Obama's "Yes We Can" slogan from 2008 didn't promise it would all get done in 21 months.
"That's sort of a softball," Obama chuckled.
Ben Giles - Most GW students didn't get to see Obama
Most of those who got to see the president were brought in by Obama's political organization, Organizing for America.
Mark Tapscott - Viguerie warns GOP; Tea Party began as reaction to Republican failures
"Allen is flat-out wrong. Americans didn’t elect Obama, Senate majority leader Harry Reid, D-NV, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, as much as they threw out Republicans in 2006 and 2008," Viguerie writes.
"Americans were angry about the GOP officials’ lack of discipline and courage, and their profligate spending and abandonment of small-government, Republican principles."
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