Now that the traditional media have birthed their third Obama narrative, “The Contender,” it’s the perfect time for his campaign to launch a campaign website dedicated to attacking Hillary Clinton for ... attacking Barack Obama.
After the initial media narrative of Obama as “savior,” the conventional wisdom became that he was not tough enough to take on the powerful Clinton machine. However, most of the media (and the blogosphere) is either unaware, or unwilling, to acknowledge that Obama has always been a tough campaigner and there is no reason to think that strategic behavioral pattern would change during the most important race of his life.
Obama and his staff should be happy campers today, and not just because of the good polling headlines. His more aggressive stance comes early enough to help differentiate himself from Clinton and win over undecided voters, but is close enough to Iowa's caucus date that the national media are not likely to formulate an, “Is Obama going negative?” storyline in time to mollify any positive effects.
Meanwhile, OpenLeft’s Chris Bowers declares Obama the frontrunner in the Democratic primary: “Obama passed Edwards in Iowa polling averages at some point in August, and has never looked back since that time. Now, it appears to me that Obama has done more than just pass Clinton. Today, for the first time ever, I now project Barack Obama as narrowly ahead in the overall nomination campaign.”
And a Daily Kos poll from last week shows Obama gaining traction with the netroots:
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Eric, you forgot the most powerful and pervasive media narrative - that of the all-mighty dollar. Remember that the media considered Obama a co-frontrunner for the first half of the year, and then Clinton outraised him by about $2 million in the third quarter and all of sudden he's finished and she's the unstoppable force. Now that that's in the backburner and money isn't talked about as much, Obama is making a comeback, when in reality he's never gone anywhere. What's going to be really interesting is when 4th quarter is released at the end of January, right before Super Tuesday. Will the money still matter once four small but influential states have had their say?
Posted by: Peter V
| December 3, 2007 5:57 PM
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