There's been a fair amount of speculation about the identity and background of Sean Smith, Joe Lieberman's singularly inept and message-challenged campaign manager. Turns out Sean is -- or at least fancies himself to be -- a master at political communication.
Sean has pioneered a communications technique known as “impression management.” Based on the premise that it is the low-information, episodic voter that swings elections—and that those voters only make broad impressions of candidates—Sean has developed an innovative approach to political communications. He has successfully applied these principles to issue campaigns and general communications campaigns.
Ah, it's the old "treat the voters like brain-dead sheep" ploy. Works every time.
Also of note, while Joe's Smith-managed campaign is telling Connecticut Dems that a primary would be bad, bad, bad for the party and the state, Smith is also advising Chicago alderman Edwin Eisendrath on his primary challenge to Dem Governor Rod Blagojevich in Illinois.
Which all goes to prove, it takes a hypocrite to manage the campaign of a hypocrite.
Oh yeah, one more thing. Smith seems to be doing the same crappy job for Eisendrath that he's doing for Joe.
I didn't think the first run of Edwin Eisendrath's commercials was any great shakes, unlike other political analysts who called them the worst political commercials ever. But now I have to ask:
What is Edwin Eisendrath, the only Democratic alternative to Governor Rod Blagojevich, doing in his gubernatorial campaign?
Why is Eisendrath family money coming too late to the campaign to help?
Why is everything Eisendrath is doing too late - and why bother running if you don't have the time to win, much less successfully protest the current incumbent?
It's all encapsulated in the latest Eisendrath campaign 'innovation' that's hard to read as anything less than toying with supporters - and I can't imagine that was the intent, hence my horror.
The innovation referred to is an internet game poking fun at Blagojevich.
At least that site can be reached, which is more than can be said of Eisendrath's official campaign site (at least as this morning).
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