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Originally Posted by aquaadverse
[I]Carter ran a campaign against Nixon, not Ford.
Obama ran against Bush, not McCain. McCain only called him on it once and never used the historically low ratings of Congress.
Neither Nixon or Bush was a candidate. Once you get past that there was little to Carter. If Nixon or Bush weren't as unpopular the tactic wouldn't have worked. In spite of taking one for the team by pardoning Nixon and having a huge amount of ground to make up, Ford damn caught Carter.
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you were alluding to carter? yikes.
carter didn't run a campaign against nixon, he never uttered nixon's name. carter ran a campaign against the "washington establishment", which btw included his own party.
your point is wrong.
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And if the little meltdown had happened 45 days later this race would have been more interesting.
It's like the popular backup QB from BFE U. with no experience replacing the starter who is doing badly. Call it the "can't do any worse" syndrome.
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what the heck are you saying? the economic "meltdown"? it was in full swing in november, and is one of the reasons obama won (remember mccain ceasing his campaign due to the "severity of the crisis"?)
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As persuasive as using CAPS and declarative sentences with zero explanation of how you got there happens to be, I still think Pelosi is taking a fair amount of heat while Obama gets to talk about about "regrettable lack of bipartisanship".
If you want to think her comments of "We won, we'll write the bills" and constant face time while Obama has no contact with the press and never actually comments on any details of the legislation has no effect on his approval rating, fine.
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pelosi is almost inmvisible right now, and I do not know how you have missed the weekly press interviews and public speeches obama has been conducting. you even take one of his quotes...odd that on the one hand you'd say he "has no contact with the press" while you then turn around and produce a quote.
there's a fairly long interview in fact on the nyt wesite today.
obama's ratings have stayed up because he is communicative and getting lots of time in the news.