McCain election strategy

[yesthattom]

The McCain site has a presentation describing where they stand in the polling, financially, and staffing.

http://www.johnmccain.com/strategybriefing/

It’s an interesting presentation. A big part of it is using wiggle-words to make things sound better than they are (or at least better than the pro-obama blogs claim things to be).

Is transparency the new thing in campaign? In the past these kind of presentations were only made to big donors.

Comments

[awfief.livejournal.com]

Part of me says "they're giving it to everyone hoping for more big donors."

The other, more fun-loving part of me says "They're open sourcing!"

[sfo2lhr.livejournal.com]

And the cynical part of me says, "they made the whole thing up". (Sorry, after 8 years of BushCo, it's hard to take anything a Republican says at face value.)

Although maybe McCain is an actual throwback to the days when Republicans were just honorable people with whom we had a serious, honest, but polite, disagreement about public policy, as opposed to the current gang of thugs, kleptocrats, criminals, and religious lunatics.

[xthread.livejournal.com]

No. That is not about transparency. It's is about stop-loss. The Republican Party's corporate giving program has pretty much dried up. If you look at all of those totals he's showing, he's got some real problems - the RNC has a war chest, but it's not raising money at the rates that they're used to. That presentation is an attempt to persuade people that a donation to McCain (of time or money) won't just be throwing good money after bad.