Presidential Muses
No matter what your opinion of John Kerry, any who follows political campaigns should read James Verini’s It's the incompetence, stupid.
This article describes the Kerry campaign from an insider’s point-of-view, and goes to reinforce a belief that I hold about Presidential Elections. I believe that either major party candidate for President (sorry Nader) can win any given election.
Few times since FDR, has this not been true. Truman defeating Dewey is a great example. No matter how unlikely a Truman victory appeared, Truman’s hard and smart campaigning led him to success.
The election of George W. Bush over John Kerry is another example. Elections are important. James Verini points out a few small things that could have made a difference in the 2004 election.
Bush may appoint a Supreme Court Justice, or two. What a stiff penalty for not running an effective campaign.
We should all take this to heart. Be passionate, run the best campaign, and win, for to the victor goes the spoils.
This article describes the Kerry campaign from an insider’s point-of-view, and goes to reinforce a belief that I hold about Presidential Elections. I believe that either major party candidate for President (sorry Nader) can win any given election.
Few times since FDR, has this not been true. Truman defeating Dewey is a great example. No matter how unlikely a Truman victory appeared, Truman’s hard and smart campaigning led him to success.
The election of George W. Bush over John Kerry is another example. Elections are important. James Verini points out a few small things that could have made a difference in the 2004 election.
Bush may appoint a Supreme Court Justice, or two. What a stiff penalty for not running an effective campaign.
We should all take this to heart. Be passionate, run the best campaign, and win, for to the victor goes the spoils.
3 Comments:
Ah, but it seems that the loser has done most of the spoiling in recent years.
I'm not sure that Kerry's website was the reason for his defeat. I believe that it was lack of organization. That's where Team Bush really did some remarkable things from posting campaign kits online ("campaign in a box") for his team leaders to integrating his message across multiple platform, Bush definitely used the Internet to his favor.
I think that an effectively run campaign can hide a lot of glaring weaknesses in a candidate/issue/party. But it still comes down to your regional demographics. You can run the best campaign against a poor opponent and still lose in some regions.
I completely agree with you about the travesty that is the future of the Supreme Court. I know you and I have discussed this before, but it scares me to death.
The future of the Court was just one more reason I voted against Bush in 2004. I wish we could have had a candidate that fired everyone up.
It's sad when political junkies like us and a hardcore liberal like me can't even feel passionate about the top of the ticket!
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