Seven advantages the Obama team has over GOP rivals

[babylonsister]

Seven advantages the Obama team has over GOP rivals
By Lynn Sweet on January 16, 2012 10:46 AM


Seven things the Obama re-election team is doing right now to win in November:

*Organizing around President Barack Obama's Jan. 24 State of the Union speech before a joint session of Congress. The campaign is organizing watch parties, even putting together a host guide to go step-by-step on how to put together an event. Obama's State of the Union speech is being leveraged by the campaign in order to keep people engaged and to create more data for the digital analysts at the Chicago headquarters to study to see what makes people respond to different web-based requests for actions.

*Organizing around First Lady Michelle Obama's Tuesday 48th birthday, asking folks to sign an on-line card. Again, the point is to create engagement points while letting the campaign reap data from the respondents.

*No matter the flap over Jodi Kantor's new book, "The Obamas," reporting on East Wing/West Wing tensions, Mrs. Obama is one of the campaign's strongest assets. She launched her Twitter account @michelleobama on Jan. 12 and as of Monday, she had 337,884 followers.

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[JNelson6563]

1. Frankly I think the advantages are more than seven.

[WI_DEM]

2. The biggest advantage is time and organization

and money. Obama is organizing and planning now while the GOP are fighting each other. He is also amassing a huge war chest--and will be able to buy tons of TV/advertising time and hopefully overwhelm Romney in the media and with GOTV efforts.

[AlinPA]

3. The republicans' SuperPACs will give them the biggest advantage: billions of dollars.

[KharmaTrain]

4. So Do The Democrats...

Look for several PACs to jump in to support the President and counteract the high rolling by Mittens and his billionaire buddies. Mittens has a lot of glass jaws that (Thank you Gnewt) are campaign ads that write themselves and the fact he already has tepid support from the GOTB base means he'll have to spend as much time campaigning for his own corrupt and fractured party's support as much as he'll be able to attack the President.

[AlinPA]

5. Agree w/you on the glass jaw and tepid support at this stage, but the republicans

have most of the big money (corporations) behind them. The tens of billions that corporations can will put up will completely swamp the president's supporters contributuions. People are talking about the president raising a billion; the republicans will be in the tens of billions. Our only chance is GOTV at the ground level.