Jay Garofili writes for the San Francisco Chronicle:
Lizzy Gore was tired of preaching to the blue choir when she was living in Redwood City during the primaries this year and found the same unanimity when she moved to Rhode Island three months ago. So last week, she began an online campaign at thepoint.com where she started raising money for a newspaper ad that would argue that Palin would not be a good vice president. If the online effort raises $21,285, she will buy and place the ad in the Cincinnati Enquirer in swing state Ohio.
“So we’re preaching to swing voters,” Gore said. “That’s the plan, anyway, to create an emotionally resonant message that convinces those folks that Sarah Palin is not who they think she is.”
On the California section of Obama’s Web site, www.baracko bama.com, there is an appeal for the “Drive for Change” program that reads: “As an Obama supporter in California, you can make a huge impact by traveling to Nevada to talk with voters about why Barack Obama and Joe Biden will bring the change we need.” The California Young Democrats are organizing weekly road trips across the border, too.
This reminds me of what happened back in 2004 when Londoners began a call in campaign to people in Ohio urging them to vote for Kerry. Of course, the state went for us. No one, I mean no one, wants to be told how to vote by people who think they are smarter than the rest of the flock. “Please hear me out and listen to me. I come from California so I have a greater knowledge of things than you, hick. We in California know the needs of your - what backwater state is this again? You are dumb, vobama for Obama”
This will backfire magnificently.
- Frank
