Have you seen the Joe Biden and Sarah Palin Saturday Night Live parody?
Thanks to my new Twitter Friend SEOAly I saw the SNL Parody Live. Alysson is also the owner/operator of Jacksonville, FL based Search Engine Optimization company SEOaly.com. Because so much of politics is serious business it is nice to have a comic relief segment. So if you haven’t seen the parody check it out. If you haven’t seen the debate this is almost everything you need to know.
When you play defense and you can’t run on issues call someone a “Terroist” like Sarah Palin.
Today Sarah Palin ran out of campaign material when she accused Senator Barack Obama of “Palling Around with Terroist“. Palin’s speech from a airplane hanger in Denver Colorado was full of political mud slinging in what is sure not to be the last poltical banter going into the last month of presidential election banter. In what appears to be preparation in a last ditch effort to save the ailing McCain Palin camp is rallying around negative attacks on Barack Obama, read more.
In the world of campaign poltics this is a clear ploy to play on American Fears. When you are failing in a bid for president you have to through all of your plans out the window and go for your base. It is clear that McCain campaign has nothing left is appealing to their base. Sarah Palin was brought into to be vice president to appeal to younger conservative women voters. When that doesn’t work try a different angel as apparently the Bush/McCain advisors are recommending. These are the same tactics the Bush re-election team ran with against John Kerry in 2004. These tactics are old and used up. America recognizes political rethoric and probably dismisses. Rhetoric like this will likely persuade many voters and only gets the anti-obama voters energized, a section of the vote the McCain Palin Camp already won.
McCain Palin’s camp is clearly struggling to win the swing vote and trying to associate Terroism with someone that has clearly won the heart and vote of most Americans isn’t going to help. If they stand a chance to win, what seems to be an unlikely election, they need to craft their message and stratgey around the problems of everyday Americans.
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John McCain’s campaign announced yesterday that it was giving up its campaign in Michigan. Michigan has been touted as a battleground state for republicans for sometime. MI hasn’t voted to elect a republican presidential candidate since 1988 when it choose George HW Bush.
It seems that McCain camp is cutting its loses and regrouping one more time in its last 30 days before the election. The McCain Palin election team is going dispurse it’s resources to tougher races in Wyoming, Colorado, and Florida. Thoose three states are “must win states” for him to have a chance in winning what I begining to see as an unlikely bid for president. John McCain’s Campaign also announced that they were going to cut all media advertisments, mail campaigns, and voter contact stratgey.
Is this an indication that he will likely be conceeding defeate on November 4th? Possibly, but I myself never viewed Michigan as a true battleground state. In a state that is riddled with job layoffs and hard hit by the failing economy. This was never McCain territory because of thousands of layoffs and exporting of jobs during the now lame duck Bush Administration. McCain’s close ties with the sitting adminstration will likely be the biggest reason for defeat nationwide as I belive the majority of American’s are looking for change. Change is a message the McCain camp has ineffectively conveyed.
Conceding defeat in Michigan a month early is an indication that the McCain Palin ticket is in serious trouble and they are waking up. The election is far from over. It is still anyone’s ball game. Barack Obama isn’t getting a free ticket to the White House. It is getting easier…
Stay tuned for more political commentary as the political races are just now heating up.