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Monday, September 24, 2012

Daily Kos: A modest proposal for Obama

Daily Kos: A modest proposal for Obama:


A modest proposal for Obama

from Matt Miller of the Center for American Progress in this Washington Post op ed>:
Take all of the undecided voters that matter, 4% each in the six states that Paul Begala say are still in conflict, VA, FL, IA, NM & Co (Begala says it is 916,643 people..
Miller says to simplify the arithmetic  assume it is an even million voters.
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The Obama campaign should pay (yes, pay) undecided voters to watch two videos in full — the Romney 47 percent debacle in Boca Raton; and Bill Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention.
As Miller puts it,
Here’s my thinking. For starters, does anyone doubt that if an undecided (and thus presumably open-minded) voter watched these two videos, he or she would break the president’s way? I’m