We love Wendy Davis. You love Wendy Davis. We and you want to do very sexy things to Wendy Davis, even the straight chicks. Unfortunately, even saying that is the kind of thing the Wendy Davis for Governor campaign would send out an OUTRAGED PRESS RELEASE ABOUT. Most of you don't get Wendy Davis for Governor's press releases. We are here to tell you they are terrible.
I suggest she register as many new voters as possible. Half the eligible people in the US don't even register (and half of those don't vote).
Instead of operating like a fast food company trying to take customers away from another fast food company, get new voters into the system.
Then work like Hell to get them out to vote for you!
We recently watched the excellent documentary "Street Fight" about Corey Booker running for Mayor. That's how to run a campaign!
Much of the dirty stuff was new to my wife - she hasn't worked on a big city political campaign. Sometimes it is a Street Fight.
Someone in the campaign seems to have decided that the War on Women is their only viable line of attack, and that everything must be organized around that. Aside from the fact that it is a losing strategy (because all R men, and a good number of R women, will vote R anyhow), it also makes her look one-dimensional, which is bad because she might want to run for something else someday.
As Negropolis mentioned, there are at least two other big issues -- health insurance / Medicaid expansion, and minimum wage -- where she could be a banner-waving Democrat. These wouldn't play well in the redder parts of the state, and that may be why her campaign is avoiding them, but she's not going to win as a "stealth Democrat".
Of course, she's probably not going to win as an overt Democrat, either, but she has the chance to run a campaign that might generate new D voters, and not incidentally keep her personal profile at a high level.
It's not a very attractive proposition to campaign a probably-losing standard-bearer, but it's better than being a probably-losing sacrificial token.
You've got my vote!
I suggest she register as many new voters as possible. Half the eligible people in the US don't even register (and half of those don't vote).
Instead of operating like a fast food company trying to take customers away from another fast food company, get new voters into the system.
Then work like Hell to get them out to vote for you!
We recently watched the excellent documentary "Street Fight" about Corey Booker running for Mayor. That's how to run a campaign!
Much of the dirty stuff was new to my wife - she hasn't worked on a big city political campaign. Sometimes it is a Street Fight.
Someone in the campaign seems to have decided that the War on Women is their only viable line of attack, and that everything must be organized around that. Aside from the fact that it is a losing strategy (because all R men, and a good number of R women, will vote R anyhow), it also makes her look one-dimensional, which is bad because she might want to run for something else someday.
As Negropolis mentioned, there are at least two other big issues -- health insurance / Medicaid expansion, and minimum wage -- where she could be a banner-waving Democrat. These wouldn't play well in the redder parts of the state, and that may be why her campaign is avoiding them, but she's not going to win as a "stealth Democrat".
Of course, she's probably not going to win as an overt Democrat, either, but she has the chance to run a campaign that might generate new D voters, and not incidentally keep her personal profile at a high level.
It's not a very attractive proposition to campaign a probably-losing standard-bearer, but it's better than being a probably-losing sacrificial token.