{"id":15073,"date":"2012-07-23T18:50:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T18:50:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-07-23T18:50:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T18:50:33","slug":"obama_campaign_strategy_poison_blue_collar_white_voters_against_romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/23\/obama_campaign_strategy_poison_blue_collar_white_voters_against_romney\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Campaign Strategy: Poison Blue-Collar White Voters Against Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Thomas B. Edsall is back with a new column at the New York Times. &#8220;The Politics of Anything Goes.&#8221; What this story is about is Obama seeking to suppress the white, blue-collar vote again. &#8220;Barack Obama first captured the national spotlight with a speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention in Boston in which he called for an end to the politics of division. The audience roared back its applause at the end of almost every line. &#8230; Americans, Obama declared, are &#8216;one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;In the end, that\u00c2\u2019s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism, or do we participate in a politics of hope?\u2019 Now,&#8221; writes Thomas B. Edsall, &#8220;faced with a tough re-election fight, President Obama has, in fundamental respects, adopted the strategy he denounced eight years ago. He is running a two-track campaign. One track of his re-election drive seeks to boost turnout among core liberal groups; the other aims to suppress turnout and minimize his margin of defeat in the most hostile segment of the electorate, whites without college degrees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is the second Thomas B. Edsall column on this premise.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"img_\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaDivideConquerWarProspClassWarfare.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The first one, again, was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/27\/the-future-of-the-obama-coalition\/\">November 27th, 2011<\/a>. In it, Edsall claimed the campaign had written off the non-college degreed white voter. This column is about how Obama\u2019s now gonna try to suppress their vote. Yep. &#8220;This approach assumes a highly polarized electorate and tries to make the best of it. On his campaign website, Obama singles out 16 specific target constituencies under &#8216;groups.\u2019 Some are listed because it would be politically damaging to fail to include them: People of Faith; Veterans and Military Families; Rural Americans; Seniors; and Small Business Owners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Look, I could read the whole thing.  Here\u2019s all you have to know.  Edsall is not criticizing Obama for this.  He does point out how it contradicts Obama\u2019s high-minded rhetoric in 2004, 2008.  But he says, &#8220;Hey, you know, Obama tried to create one America, he tried to unify us, but it didn\u2019t work.&#8221;  He doesn\u2019t specify why, but sadly, he tried. He tried to be the great unifier, tried to be postpartisan, postracial, post this, but it didn\u2019t work.  And so now, since there\u2019s this highly polarized electorate out there, all our precious Obama can do is try to make the best of it. <\/p>\n<p>So, see, it\u2019s not his fault.  He wanted to unify everybody, but he didn\u2019t, not his fault, he tried. Now we\u2019ve got this divided electorate, and Obama\u2019s got no choice but to suppress the voters that don\u2019t like him.  He\u2019s gotta find a way to demoralize \u2019em.  He\u2019s gotta find a way to make sure that they don\u2019t vote. He\u2019s gotta find a way to make it so that they have no desire to vote.  He\u2019s gotta make it appear hopeless.  They have to give up.  He has to make it appear hopeless that the people who oppose Obama can win.  That\u2019s what he has to do.  And what does that mean?  It means that Obama &#8212; and Edsall is fully supportive of this.  Obama now, as a campaign tactic, has to go out and try to poison the blue-collar white vote about Romney.  And how are they doing that? <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=37804\"><img id=\"eZObject_65006\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/00-24_7Self585.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Folks, they are spending a fortune trying to convince these people that Romney hates them.  They are trying to suppress the non-college educated white vote.  They\u2019re trying to convince \u2019em that Romney hates \u2019em; that he sneers at \u2019em; that he looks down his nose at them; that he resents them, hates them; he doesn\u2019t have any use for \u2019em.  That\u2019s the tone of Obama\u2019s campaign where these voters are concerned.  He\u2019s trying to take all their hope away. He\u2019s trying to tell them they have no chance. They\u2019re defeated. You may as well not even show up and vote, you don\u2019t have a chance. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s quite a leap from November, 2011: Yeah, you know, we\u2019ve lost these people. We\u2019re not gonna campaign.  Now we\u2019re gonna do everything we can to depress them.  And this is written of as though it\u2019s a brilliant campaign tactic, because it deals with the reality of what is, and Obama is very, very smart to do this.  They want you people who are white, who don\u2019t have college degrees, to hate Romney so much that you\u2019ll just stay home, sit on your hands, because you don\u2019t think it\u2019ll matter anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Thomas B. Edsall is back with a new column at the New York Times. &#8220;The Politics of Anything Goes.&#8221; What this story is about is Obama seeking to suppress the white, blue-collar vote again. &#8220;Barack Obama first captured the national spotlight with a speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention in Boston in which he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Obama Campaign Strategy: Poison Blue-Collar White Voters Against Romney - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2012\/07\/23\/obama_campaign_strategy_poison_blue_collar_white_voters_against_romney\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Obama Campaign Strategy: Poison Blue-Collar White Voters Against Romney - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Thomas B. 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