[BretLudwig]

Obama as the Rovian 51% candidate

"David Axelrod has built Barack Obama's campaign around the old 1968
Nixon slogan of "Bring Us Together," rhetorically running against Karl
Rove's central idea that you only need 51 percent to win.
The funny thing is, of course, that Obama will likely wind up winning with
just 51% over Hillary Clinton. In Presidential primary campaigns, the
leader normally pulls away due to the bandwagon effect, but Obama has been
content to eke out the narrowest victory in recent primary history. He
hasn't done a thing to reach out substantively to white voters worried
about his long track record as a racial activist.

Obama tried to lie and bloviate his way out of his first Rev. Wright jam,
so Wright went on his little media tour to set the record straight,
finally getting Obama to defriend him by saying Obama's "a politician."
Moreover, Obama has refused to compromise on any race-related issue. So,
he's stuck at 51%.

But, guess what? Karl Rove was right. You only need 51%.

And Axelrod/Obama know it's really not hard to get 51% with these
opponents. It's not like Germany in 1914, where they've got to beat France
and Russia (plus any of their friends who tag along). Obama isn't running
against FDR and Reagan, he's running against a proven screw-up in
HillaryCare and the elderly Arizona Jones."


http://isteve.blogspot.com/2008/05/o...candidate.html

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