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the question of viability in late july-early august is kinda interesting--i would think that launching this ad campaign now is a de facto act of desperation--this because one would expect post-nomination bounces for both candidates as a function of the saturation coverage each convention will get---so the conclusion is that the campaign handlers must feel as though they have to act now in order to preserve the possibility of this bounce.
the adverts that i've seen are remarkably crude, relying basically on repetitions of 2 or 3 memes: "experienced enough to lead?"--"will raise your taxes"---"raise your taxes"---"freak out now and avoid the rush"....a kind of pavlovian relation to the republican demographic is at play, it seems. conservatives appear to be profiled as voting entirely out of fear. which is curious if you compare that to other aspects of the right worldview, like on global warming, say...
what worries me about all this is indicated by the weight attached to obama's overseas junket, which seems to me bizarre---a point at which the sporting-event election moved away from any contact with issues or positions and retreated entirely into the world of image. does obama look on camera to have a particular attitude and what does that attitude which appears by the way he carries himself or the soundbytes selected say about the image that "we" have variously constructed about obama and which forms--apparently--the basis for "our" voting.
very odd.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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