Primal Scream
Polls aside though, I continue to see a campaign in which the McCain camp has a consistent and aggressive message. They’re constantly on the attack and largely defining the debate. The Obama campaign is largely reactive, parrying the attacks — sometimes rapid response, sometimes slower response, but defined largely by response. It seemed that way to me in July, in August and it seems that way to me now.
(Via Talking Points Memo.)
This worked well for the GOP in 2004 as well, and I fear it may continue to work this year. These Rove-esque tactics basically boil down to constructing an artificial reality based around a few talking points, and repeating those points until everyone either believes your reality or has heard about it enough to understand how it works.
