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?

6 thoughts on “NYT: Obama Takes Page from Bennet ’08 Campaign”

MADCO says:

September 1, 2012 at 9:25 pm

you knew what the hell you were talking about.

Ask me again mid-Nov (one of the double digit dates) and I’ll give you half a clue.

It won’t be enough to even get you to half a clue- cause you won’t believe most of it.

Romney invited and promoted as the headliner at his convention Clint Eastwood and a chair.

The only possible conclusions are

a) Romney is too stupid to put on his own deal.

b) Because OFA is not dumb enough to run against te Mayor of Carmel, Romney needed everyone to ignore him and focus on something else.

Either way – he loses.

I can’t tell if he never intended to win – though he seems too dumb and full of himself to have run this hard this far intending not to win – or he’s just that bad a candidate.

And I don’t care – as long as nature takes its course and he loses.

As for the rest of your the Senate should be disbanded and no Governor should ever appoint anyone to fill a vacancy bs Team Bennet won – get over it. Another 30 or 40 years of bitter whining and you’ll be on your grandkids’ front porch annoying everyone. Do you really want to be that guy in the interim while waiting for the grandkids to show up?

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1. JO says:
  
  September 1, 2012 at 9:50 pm
  
  What does Clint Eastwood have to do with Obama’s campaign strategy? Was that you on stage with Clint?
  
  Never mind. My semi-annual foray into Colorado Ad Hominem is over. Can hardly say how much I miss the expertise and the insights.
  
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  1. MADCO says:
    
    September 1, 2012 at 10:27 pm
    
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nancycronk says:

September 3, 2012 at 2:47 pm

I do think you make some interesting points. I do think Buck and Ryan are made from the same RWNJ cloth, however…. Ryan perhaps even more so.

I have strong opinions about all this, too. I see the national party folks miss a lot of what was going on in the Bennet campaign because they were not here. I intend to blog on it soon.

BTW, Bennet ran in ’10 not in ’08.

Peace.

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raymond1 says:

September 3, 2012 at 11:08 pm

Please explain what the fuck this stale old grips against Bennet has to do with Obama:

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?

Um, yeah: Obama can “duplicate” Bennet’s success as an “Out of State” candidate drawing donations from (gasp) New York.

I get that you still hate Bennet, but there are meds that could help you make logical sense in your bitchiness sessions, you know.

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Diogenesdemar says:

September 4, 2012 at 5:47 pm

Times article on Sunday, I had to check a couple of times to make sure that I hadn’t accidentally picked up a copy of The Onion. I can’t believe that OFA thinks that Bennett has some special insight for this State, or accomplishments that are highly regarded here. Is it even possible that dwyer (or is it dywer?) is right, and the OFA hasn’t a clue about campaigning in Colorado?

Michael Bennett had the good fortune (but then his fortune always is, isn’t it?) to run against the biggest bucking asshat that the Republicans have ever tossed against the wall here — to date. Bennett exhibited the same mastery of skills that he exhibits in everything . . . he was very good at choosing his birth. This time he was good enough to choose not to be born Ken Buck. Bennett’s “win” was nothing more than a vote against Ken Buck. And, since being elected, Mr. Bennett has pretty much lived up to all the lack of high hopes of his electorate.

So, yeah — I can sing your point one, JO. Your next three verses are pretty much unintelligible, however — and they don’t have a very good beat. Overall, I give it a 29 — mostly ’cause I like the album art.

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