Obama Tries to Peel Away Clinton Backers

[DeepModem Mom]

AP: Obama Tries to Peel Away Clinton Backers
Jul 18
By NEDRA PICKLER
Associated Press Writer

....The heart of Obama's campaign is convincing voters that Clinton is a Washington establishment candidate—the quasi-incumbent, as his campaign manager called her recently—while he will bring fresh views for voters tired of politics as usual. But he has to walk a fine line when it comes to criticizing his opponents so voters don't see him as just another politician on the attack.

"It's risky territory for someone presenting himself as a 'hope- monger' who will 'turn the page' on traditional politics," said Dan Newman, a Democratic strategist in California. "The slightest whiff of negativity from Obama runs the risk of causing voters to question his carefully built self-presentation of a new kind of candidate who floats above traditional sniping and snapping."

That's why the most direct attack on Clinton from his campaign so far has not come from the candidate himself, but in a memo that criticized her ties to India and called her the senator from Punjab. When the Clinton campaign obtained the memo and distributed it publicly, Obama said it went over the line....

Obama says changing the political tone does not mean he won't draw distinctions in the race. He said he's trailing Clinton now because she is so well known and he is not, but he expressed confidence that will change.

"To know me is to love me," the candidate said with a wide smile during a news conference Tuesday.

An Associated Press-Ipsos poll out this week shows that while Clinton and Obama are in a tight race for self-identified "moderate Democrats," Clinton has a strong lead among those who describe themselves as "strong Democrats." The more partisan voters are more likely to vote in the primary, so Obama needs to win them over by sowing the seeds of doubt about their favorite....

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8QF3P581&show_article=1

[bhumikag]

1. Obama trying to pull women voters??

and now Obama has launched a book club to draw voters, starting in New Hampshire. see here:http://www.thenewsroom.com/details/503816?c_id=wom-bc-bg is this a way to draw women voters? because they generally outnumber men at book clubs..?

bhumika
politics desk,the newsroom

[sandnsea]

6. Because working moms have so much free time

:eyes: Who is running that campaign???

[jmp]

2. The problem ...

With trying to paint Hillary as a quasi-incumbent is that the Clinton years were pretty popular then and even more so now that "W" provides a contrast to the competence that came before.

"To know me is to love me,"

:loveya:

[illinoisprogressive]

3. name of the game. pick off the other's support. Besides,

He wants to change politics but, he is running against the establishment business as usual. He has to be able to go up against her and play her game to get the nomination. She is that 90s politics and in order to win, you have to use her own game against her

[draft_mario_cuomo]

4. Wall Street wants to change politics and establishment business as usual?

Surely that must be why Obama is their favorite. ;)

[Bullet1987]

5. In my book, he has to take a stand on an issue that the establishment

would be scared of (or at least ashamed) to attack Hillary as the the establishment candidate. So far he hasn't done that...