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Adtually, Otis, I'd suggest that in the last week or so Kerry's "W for Wrong" campaign, and his attempt to put a wedge between Powell and Cheney on Iraq are both "new". What you may mean is that he is not *exciting* enough, which may be a problem. It may also be that your news sources are not communicating these things - it is hard enough to get Kerry info in the US media, much less the UK...
But we've got two questions here. One is what will make the sort of people who hang around on Barbelith - generally left-leaning, generally anti-Bush - vote Kerry, which probably involves a) impressing upon them thre awfulness of another four years of Bush and b) making it seem like there is a point in voting. The other is how to make the "average American" - especially in swing states - vote a) at all and b) for Kerry, which is a different question. And actually, when we say "the average American", we come up against the fact that TANSA - we're talking about mobilising the black vote, the Latino vote, the anti-War vote... Hell, even the Nader vote - and getting it to the polling booth and behind Kerry.
That's a challenge. Better now, however, than after four more years of the Bush administration stripping the rights and freedoms of the Constitution and the powers of Congress in order to make more effective switches for beating its ideological and business opponents, and better Kerry, however dull or Establishment he may appear, than Bush, whose anti-Establishment credentials are impeccable but, IMHO, misdirected. |
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