Greg Sargent ties together a lot of threads on Obama's win but points to one element in particular: the Obama team's ability to create an effective narrative, a story of a president faced with nearly overwhelming challenges but succeeding anyway.
The Obama team long believed that Republicans themselves were contributing to this storyline. By putting up unprecedented roadblocks at a time of national crisis, they may have only reinforced voters’ sense that whatever their disappointment with the recovery, Obama is the one who can ultimately be trusted to fight relentlessly on behalf of their interests. Poll after poll found the GOP brand in tatters. And poll after poll — despite relentless attacks on Obama as out of touch with economic suffering — continued to find strong trust in him to fight for the middle class.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment