How Obama Won the Upcoming Debate
10/2/12
By Timothy C. Daughtry
For seasoned political observers on both sides of the aisle, it is not particularly surprising that the media's narrative for Wednesday's presidential debate has already been written. If Obama were to show up in a clown suit and flip-flops, the media narrative would be that his unconventional attire was a daring and brilliant move designed to challenge the status quo and to reveal his human side, or possibly a laudable effort to make politics more interesting to children. Romney, of course, would be cast as the dull guy who dressed like an accountant and who failed to reach the audience with his talk of budgets and debt and restoring the private sector.
Wardrobe choices aside, by Thursday morning, as long as Obama shows up for the debate, the narrative will be that Obama has closed the deal with the electorate. After that narrative is repeated enough, it stands a good chance of becoming reality.
So the superficial answer to how Obama won the upcoming debate is that liberals control the news media that shape the thinking of voters in the middle, the ones who do not define themselves as liberal or conservative and who supposedly are still making up their minds. The deeper -- and more significant -- answer is that conservatives do not understand political strategy, and the left does.
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Perhaps the fundamental reason, then, for America's precarious state is that conservatives, by nature, mind our own business. We have been too busy taking care of our families and our businesses and running our own lives to devote much time to meddling in what the next generation of voters will be taught, or in changing the direction of the news media. Obama, on the other hand, won the upcoming debate because earlier generations of liberals made it their business to make sure that, one day, leftists like him could not lose.
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10/2/12
By Timothy C. Daughtry
For seasoned political observers on both sides of the aisle, it is not particularly surprising that the media's narrative for Wednesday's presidential debate has already been written. If Obama were to show up in a clown suit and flip-flops, the media narrative would be that his unconventional attire was a daring and brilliant move designed to challenge the status quo and to reveal his human side, or possibly a laudable effort to make politics more interesting to children. Romney, of course, would be cast as the dull guy who dressed like an accountant and who failed to reach the audience with his talk of budgets and debt and restoring the private sector.
Wardrobe choices aside, by Thursday morning, as long as Obama shows up for the debate, the narrative will be that Obama has closed the deal with the electorate. After that narrative is repeated enough, it stands a good chance of becoming reality.
So the superficial answer to how Obama won the upcoming debate is that liberals control the news media that shape the thinking of voters in the middle, the ones who do not define themselves as liberal or conservative and who supposedly are still making up their minds. The deeper -- and more significant -- answer is that conservatives do not understand political strategy, and the left does.
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Perhaps the fundamental reason, then, for America's precarious state is that conservatives, by nature, mind our own business. We have been too busy taking care of our families and our businesses and running our own lives to devote much time to meddling in what the next generation of voters will be taught, or in changing the direction of the news media. Obama, on the other hand, won the upcoming debate because earlier generations of liberals made it their business to make sure that, one day, leftists like him could not lose.
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