I have few suggestions which may be of help:
Most of the young voters follow the trend – as what their friends or crowd doing. Secondly, they are the one who prefer and most welcome the change.
Obama campaign has tapped this really well, they talk about change and aim on young voters, and young voters in turn create the viral marketing effect.
I think what Hillary campaign should target now is, ask few questions to these young voters, what kind of change they want? is it the change for better life? improvement in social and economic conditions? Whom should they rely on more, someone who has already done this is past or someone who just talks about direction-less change.
Ask them if given chance of doing the same task again, which they have done successfully in past will they do it better next time? Ask them how many of them feel they would do it better and most of them will agree, and Hillary can say she has done it in past and want to do it again a much better this time. Once people agree on one thing with you, they correlate themselves with you and would start agreeing with you more!
Then you should emphasize on that young voters today are mature they can not be easily flickered by mass influence. They are individuals and they make their decision themselves without getting influenced by others. This is what America is all about – a country of free and independent minds!
Hillary should keep in mind, young mind prefer stories, emotions, enthusiasm over a plain, simple and logical speech. They vote on dreams, dreams of big and different. So her speech should consider these factors.
Also I have tried to put some useful analysis about Obama Campaign on my recent post Why is Obama winning?
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Please could someone that is close to Hillary Clinton o to her advisors ask her to find a way to run a very short add, in which there is minimal talk added , but just shows Michelle Obama saying that it is the first time she is really proud to be an american now that her husband is running for president and has the chance to become a president.
Please run this add in OHIO and in texas, without adding any seasoning to it, because tthe goal is toi let the american people know how she thinks, she appears very
unlikeble, which is the only reason that will make people vote immediatly for Hiillaruy Clinton, it feels that she has already a chip in her shoulder, and that we owe her something, it is extremely irritating.
The problem is that the press loves Obama, and is hardly yalking about this,
In the debate in the other hand Hillary Clinton should not even mention it.
By just showing Michael Obama by herself is enough.
This has been the slip of the tongue that finally can be used to stop them.
When Obama says “It’s a choice between having a debate with John McCain about who has the most experience in Washington or having a debate about who’s most likely to change Washington.” what comes to my mind is someone who is trying to convince people that he will change Washington. That to me seems both arrogant and rather simplistic. Most of us know that change doesn’t just happen when one person wants it to, change takes time and the best way to bring about change is through hard negotiations. Negotiations, mediation and concensus takes experience.
I would think Hillary could make some very important headway by talking about what it takes to make actual and meaningful change in Washington. It’s one thing for Obama to say he will change things but the reality is that it takes experience and understanding to know how to accomplish those goals.
Take Obama’s statement and turn it around on him.
Someone close to the Clinton campaign should have Hillary and Bill ALWAYS use all three of Obama’s names when addressing him. With a name like Hussein, it is bound to make some type of difference. Who in their right mind would vote for someone who basically grew up outside the US and has a name that includes Hussien ? This might make him just a little less likable!
To begin with, I am a longtime Democrat but not a Hillary Clinton or Obama supporter and my wife can’t stand her. I do admire Hillary from a distance. Having said that I have some suggestions on how she can come back and gain the nomination.
My suggestions are to “Steal his Thunder” by
1. Praising Obama at every turn as the best thing to come down the pike in Democratic politics since JFK (while graciously mentioning that she omits consideration of husband Bill because she can’t be objective about his considerable contributions)
2. Telling every audience that Obama has great potential and that he would be the first one on her list for Vice President if this were 2012. Then announce that if you win the nomination, you would not be able to recommend him to the Democratic Party for Vice President in 2008.
3. Immediately stop and totally avoid directly saying to the public in words and ads that he lacks experience to be President.
4. At every speech, talk of the America that you wish to create during your term as President and how you would go about creating this America. Be frank and forward to the public by admitting that you have made mistakes in the past, especially in health care and NAFTA, but that they have made you wiser and more capable to lead the country forward in a positive direction. Your speeches have to say something about how you would want America to regain its position as the world’s premiere economic leader. In so doing, you should purposely distance yourself from a longtime ally by saying that Walmart needs to rethink its policies of buying everything from China and other similar countries.
5. Explain at every stop the setting which compelled you to authorize the President to go to war if it was necessary. This includes that your State had been directly attacked by Terriorists with tremendous loss of life only a short time before that and that you were presented with a great dilemma and felt that you had to place some trust in the Commander in Chief Bush although you instinctively were very troubled.
Do not directly in speeches or ads contrast your situation with that of Barack Obama whose stance against the war carried absolutely no consequence – instead let the public figure this out.
To Mrs. Clinton and staff.Let me say first of all this is coming from a very open minded male view point.I admire you very much.Iam so tired of patriarchy b.s. which has been in control for too long It is time for a change,but not color but gender. i would really like to see his view point on where and what a ladys place should be. well you see where i am going w/ this.i am behind you 100 percent.go girl
I suggest that approaching John Edwards and offering the VP spot should you get nominated. This would have him campaign for you (as well as himself). Additionally, trying to get Al Gore to campaign for you (public support statements from Gore ,I believe would impact the public) Linking yourself to helping the envirment would ring a bell with many voters. Voters would also empathise with Gore ( for what happened to him in the first elections against Bush) It would empathise the fact that we had and stiill have dishonest government (rigging the election/lying why we attacked Iraq.Additionally, I was watching a “movie” Why We Fight” on my cable On Demand Service. There was a scene in Congress when Bush made the announcement that we were going into Iraq. They panned the audience and everyone was applauding and happy. As they panned the audiance the first row was all applauding and everyone was happy. Except right in back of these men of war was you HILLARY CLINTON lookink extremely disturbed, unhappy and worried—As all of these men of war and pollitions should have looked. It seemed as though Hillary Clinton was the only one that truly was thinking about this decision. (After all the invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.
I hope these ideas may be of some help to you.
God Bless and Good luck
Janette Lodato
Since Obama seems to love to point out Hillary’s vote to go to war, why not have an ad thatObama voting “NOT PRESENT” the way he did on several occasions in order to avoid political consequences. She could use the tagline…America needs a leader who is always “Present”
“Change” is not always good— look how many changes Bush did. Are they good? We need solutions!!!!!!!!
Best solutions as a way to positive changes!
Worth mentioning:
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/04/08/obama-delegate-quits-after-campaign-finds-remarks-to-neighbor-kids-to-be-‘unacceptable’/comment-page-3/#comments
News broke that Obama “disowned” a latino delegate of his for telling her neighbor’s children to “stop playing in the tree like monkeys”. Apparently it was stated out of concern for their safety. However the former delegate and her neighbor have a long standing dispute of some kind and the neighbor, who happens to be black, felt the word “monkey” is a racial slur and called the police on her. When Obama was told of this he threw the delegate under the bus.
More interesting is the fact that Obama could not disown his pastor for his damming America and varies hate whitey sermons however when someone calls little black children playing in a tree “monkeys” that is crossing the line in his judgement.
This double standard shows Obama is in fact a racist in sheep’s clothing.
I think Hillary should bring CPR into grammar schools. Not a bad idea to bring
in also self defense. Remember people, it is a sick world we are not living in.
We have to protect ourselfs and our children.