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Divide and Conquer
It's now become pretty obvious. The McCain camp is doing a really big push to divide the Democrats against each other - Hillary supporters against Obama supporters. It's really stupid, if you think about it, it's like saying that members of the Olympic basketball team should play against each other, because they played for different teams in the NBA.
Anyway, the McCain camp recently produced this ad, which criticizes Obama for not picking Hillary, as if trying to say: "Dear Hillary supporters, Obama doesn't support your candidate, but WE support her." Riiight...
What's also interesting are the comments to the video. They're all like: "We love you Hillary! McCain '08". Now while real people who feel that way certainly do exist, they're no more than a couple % at best. But there was a ton of such comments, all voted up very highly, before many people have even seen the video (it had only had around 200 views last time I checked). It's all completely disproportionate.
It would be interesting to do an analysis of the "users" who posted these comments, but even without that it's safe to say that the McCain camp has a fair number of paid trolls, and his latest tactic is also very obvious.
I sure hope Hillary puts an end to it once and for all.
Comments (3)
Uh, Obama's the presumptive nominee - why doesn't he put an end to it? Instead of 3am VP text messages (another swipe at Hillary?), how about a concerted effort towards Hillary supporters - wouldn't that have good payback?
August 24, 2008 6:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
OK, just what should he *do* to gain their support, other than support her plans and policies almost entirely?
Get on his knees and beg?
Have a sex operation and become a woman?
Seriously, I don't know.
And seriously, what did McCain do in this regard, other than say "Barack is bad, but you're more than welcome to vote for me"? He doesn't even support basic women's rights (equal pay, abortion - not even in the case of rape!).
August 24, 2008 10:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
(As about the 3AM text messages: This is paranoia and conspiracy theory. The messages took 4 hours to deliver to all subscribers and they had to do it by morning. The delivery was spread even across the night. Some got it at 3AM, but not that many.)
August 24, 2008 10:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
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