Clinton Campaign Viewed as Most Positive
10 December 2007 11:45 am by Taylor Marsh
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A new NYTimes/CBS Poll says it all.
… ..Still, while no candidate tested in the poll was perceived as attacking more than explaining, some candidates were given more credit than others.
Hillary Clinton was viewed as running the most positive campaign of the leading Democratic candidates. About seven in 10 Democratic primary voters said she has spent more time explaining, four times the number who said she has spent more time attacking.
It’s important to also note that Clinton didn’t start hitting back until the onslaught reached critical mass. In others words, go on the offensive or be buried by the negative attacks.
Angelou, who first announced she was backing the New York senator’s presidential bid earlier this year, calls Clinton a “strong woman and a protector of families,” in the 60-second spot running on stations across the Palmetto State.
“Each generation of African Americans stands on the shoulders of those who came before,” Angelou also says in the ad. “Today, the challenges facing us threaten the dreams we have had for our children. We need a president with the experience and strength to meet those challenges.”The ad comes in the wake of Winfrey’s wildly popular tour of early-voting states with Obama over the weekend.
On an extremely proud note, former Vice President Al Gore accepted his well deserved Nobel Peace Prize today, with a program on CNN to cover the event. His office emailed me the full speech earlier today. Think Progress has some clips and excerpts, but this one is classic. Here’s the full transcript.
Seven years ago tomorrow, I read my own political obituary in a judgment that seemed to me harsh and mistaken — if not premature. But that unwelcome verdict also brought a precious if painful gift: an opportunity to search for fresh new ways to serve my purpose.
Unexpectedly, that quest has brought me here. Even though I fear my words cannot match this moment, I pray what I am feeling in my heart will be communicated clearly enough that those who hear me will say, “We must act.”
Lots to talk about. Including Rudy Giuliani’s implosion on “Meet the Press.” On that note, it’s important to give credit where it’s due. Tim Russert did a masterful job in tearing the bark off of Rudy, leaving him with only a nervous giggle as defense. It was must see political TV. M.J. Rosenberg’s review:
Russert prosecuted the famed prosecutor, enumerating one Giuliani scandal after another. All Rudy could do was giggle. He reminded me of that ancient clip in which Bobby Kennedy grilled some miscreant at a Senate hearing and the bad guy laughed at every question. Bobby finally said: “Are you going to tell us anything or just giggle? I thought only little girls giggled?.” Sexist, yes (it was 1959).
But it destroyed the giggly witness.
That was Rudy yesterday. All giggles and deer-in-the-headlights terror.
But is it the end of Rudy, as Rosenberg suggests? Never underestimate the “war on terror” fear fetish of Republican primary voters.
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