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EL (not verified) says:
Democrats still don't get it. It's the message that gets people elected! Strategy helps only when the message is appealing, money helps only if the message is appealing, and so on. If the Democrats loose in 2008 it will be because their message is unappealing. No amount of money and no amount of strategy in the world will get someone with an unappealing message elected. And BTW 1988 was not as the author described - GHWB got Reagan's third term. Reagan was not as unpopular as the press would like to believe. It wasn't possible for Dukakis to get elected because his message was unappealing AND the Reagan legacy - a strong conservative approach to economics and social policy - was working exceedingly well. Voters saw the proof so GHWB got the nod because voters heard him give the same message as Reagan and thus they thought they were getting a kind of Reagan third term. It burns many liberals to think this but it's the truth.
Democrats still don't get it. It's the message that gets people elected! Strategy helps only when the message is appealing, money helps only if the message is appealing, and so on. If the Democrats loose in 2008 it will be because their message is unappealing. No amount of money and no amount of strategy in the world will get someone with an unappealing message elected. And BTW 1988 was not as the author described - GHWB got Reagan's third term. Reagan was not as unpopular as the press would like to believe. It wasn't possible for Dukakis to get elected because his message was unappealing AND the Reagan legacy - a strong conservative approach to economics and social policy - was working exceedingly well. Voters saw the proof so GHWB got the nod because voters heard him give the same message as Reagan and thus they thought they were getting a kind of Reagan third term. It burns many liberals to think this but it's the truth.