September 01, 2012 08:20 PM UTC

NYT: Obama Takes Page from Bennet '08 Campaign

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• by: JO

Carl Hulse of the NYT says that Obama campaign is using Bennet’s campaign as a model of how to win — capture women and Hispanics — in Colorado, if not further afield. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09…

Hopefully not.

1. Bennet was running against a Certified Nut Case (CNC), a real-life Tea Partier who left rationality behind years ago in Princeton. Romney may be a robot specializing in automated flip flops, but he doesn’t really come across (yet) as completely off his rocker.

2. Bennet rode in on Obama’s coattails. Whose coattails is Obama riding?

3. To some extent, Obama seems to be running (virtually) against Todd Akin — at least to the extent that I haven’t discerned a clear set of goals or plans to associate with Obama. Truth be told, in ’08 Obama was the candidate of Change — meaning that he would be a change from the wretched GWB. This time, he’s not Romney, which may well be enough to get folks to vote for him, but it won’t be enough to get them outdoors to wander their neighborhoods to get out the vote.

4. Bennet’s campaign for the Senate can’t be separated from the primary. He was the Out of State candidate versus the in-state candidate. I once bothered to look up his contributors and sort them by Zip code. Bennet was the candidate of the Upper East Side, and no, I don’t mean Julesburg. Does Obama imagine he can duplicate that too?