Interesting Republican strategy...
By SCDurw00d
@SCDurw00d (8)
United States
March 4, 2008 11:54am CST
Listening to the radio the day of the Ohio primary I was very interested in a few of the strategies put forth by Republicans. It seems there are 2 objectives that a few of the crafty ones have.
1) Do whatever is necessary to keep Hillary Clinton's campaign alive in order to siphon funds away from either candidate so that they are weaker come the general election.
2) Keep Hillary viable in order to buy time for her to exploit Obama's record or force him to defend his strategies.
Either one seems like an interesting proposition and I wonder how long the party leaders will allow open primaries. I would have loved to seen the look on the face of some of the strongest conservatives as they selected Hillary Clinton's name...
...do you think that is considered a sin by some evangelicals? ;)
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2 responses
@alexwander (170)
• Canada
22 Mar 08
Ideally, a political party should not be elected by campaign strategy or election engineering but the appeal of its ideas. Whether those ideas work is another matter.
Problem is, the current administration applied smart tactics during elections in the past. It is called "smart" in term of winning in 2000 and 2004. The smart tactics made the administration favored heavily on certain groups only. So it polarized American people and deeply divided the country. Such tactics also offended some traditional Republicans, especially the fiscal conservative who were socially moderate.
This situation in Ohio implied that the Republican Party suddenly found that they lost appeal to the American mainstream. As they couldn't strengthen their party's support, the alternative was to weaken their opponents.
@anniepa (27955)
• United States
19 Mar 08
I don't think there will be a money problem for either Democratic candidate no matter what the GOP does since their fundraising has been through the roof compared to the Republicans poor performance contribution wise. I sure hope the party leaders do away with these open primaries immediately, though, because I feel it's just plain unethical. As a Democrat I want my party to win in November, obviously, but that doesn't mean I should have a say in who the GOP's nominee should be.
Annie
