Friday
Jul162004
Message to DLC:Bush Fortifies Base- Seeking to Turnout the Faithful
Friday, July 16, 2004 at 12:40PM
Instead of Aggressively Targeting Swing Voters, Bush Fortifies Base- Seeking to Turnout the Faithful
As President Bush addressed a rally here Wednesday, he performed the political equivalent of preaching to the choir. Bush won a whopping 65 percent of the vote in this suburban Milwaukee county in 2000, and the Republican Party, which dispensed tickets for the open-air speech, made sure the fairgrounds were packed with Bush loyalists. James Carville said it's "a new way to run for president... usually you quietly shore up your base and aggressively court the swing voter, Bush is aggressively shoring up his base and quietly courting the swing voter." .[Its not new Jesse Jackson did it back in the day. But since then the DLC has made sure that nothing like this is going down BW] [more]
As President Bush addressed a rally here Wednesday, he performed the political equivalent of preaching to the choir. Bush won a whopping 65 percent of the vote in this suburban Milwaukee county in 2000, and the Republican Party, which dispensed tickets for the open-air speech, made sure the fairgrounds were packed with Bush loyalists. James Carville said it's "a new way to run for president... usually you quietly shore up your base and aggressively court the swing voter, Bush is aggressively shoring up his base and quietly courting the swing voter." .[Its not new Jesse Jackson did it back in the day. But since then the DLC has made sure that nothing like this is going down BW] [more]