Thursday, May 22, 2008
Being chatted up by your own .....
You know you are winning when the Chattering Cluster are incessantly on about your message. Let me give you a concrete example of what I mean by this.
Obama will win the Democratic nomination to run for the White House because the Chattering Clusters are on song with his message of change. Obama has one clear and certain message - "Change we can believe in" ..... Everyone wants that kind of change out there in the Clans... They want it so bad they can taste it.... They want it so bad that when they see Obama they want to embrace him because he has become the embodiment of their promised change.
Those who oppose Obama are shadow boxing with themselves. Because Obama is not a symbol. Obama is not a brand. Obama is not a politician. Obama is not an ideologue. Why can't they lay a finger on Obama even though there is a heap of issues surrounding him as a candidate - including the views of his former Pastor and his wife. Why oh why? Well it is simple, Obama is the embodiment of 'change YOU can believe in!
Mc Cain is the only candidate that can possibly win the White House against Obama. Incredibly his natural political instincts tell him precisely what he has to do to win. Mc Cain has to appeal to the Chattering Clusters too but not the Clans that have embraced Obama but the Tribes who distrust change. Tribes within the Democratic Party's natural constituency who distrust elites, idealists, wordsmiths, visionary, and charismatic people. Tribes who voted for George W Bush because he was a homely type of guy - he was non threatening to them. Tribes who voted strongly and consistently for Hillary Clinton within the Democratic Primaries because she addressed their fear of change.
Within the Chattering Clusters there are Clans and there are Tribes. Clans are more numerous in numbers but they are also more fickle, unstable, and insincere. Tribes are less numerous in numbers but they are also more reliable, stable, and sincere.
The 2008 race for the White House between Obama and Mc Cain will be a battle fought within the Chattering Clusters between Clans and Tribes.
Who will win?
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