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A comment from a post from about a month ago: I worked on the Carson campaign. Tom Coburn is a moronic douche but the reason he won if you were in Oklahoma at that time is because of his ads. His ads scared a lot of the uninformed populace along with it being the Bible-belt. Also, Tom was formerly a Congressman for the state.
Brad is lucky he received over 40% of the vote. I still wish he had won. Oklahoma is going down-hill with Tom.
I’m not sure how a Senator can drag a state downhill… even a doctor prone to diagnosing Terri Schiavo’s condition from the steps of Congress. Meanwhile, the state’s government is in the hands of Democrat Brad Henry. (I know nothing about the state legislature.)
I note that Brad Carson writes editorials for the DLC’s house magazine.
Where I find Brad Carson dissect his failed campaign here
I campaigned in a more traditional way, one I thought would work. When stumping in farm country, I tried to focus on agriculture; in the suburbs, on public education; in small towns, on economic development. The message was always very narrowly tailored, largely because each of the coalition groups my campaign was trying to assemble either didn’t care about the agenda of the other target groups — or actually disagreed with it.
He goes on to explain some irkier problems of working social issues out, which there’s more to than this paragraph. My trouble with this paragraph is simply… What’s stopping a candidate you sell public education in farm country and economic development (which, as a whole for the entire state includes agriculture) in the suburbs? (You have something a bit closer to the fabled “Narrative” if you yourself are the one separating the non-disparate parts of the message.)
Actually, Hillary Clinton is roaming the rural parts of New York, lightly bashing city-folks to charm the ruralites. (Governor Mitt Romney presents a different case: he’s bashing his state of Massachussetts across the country in his bid for the Republican nomination, which is hurting his chances in the next gubernatorial race — should he run.)