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There's New Hope For Lieberman: "Low-Information Voters"

by: BranfordBoy

Fri Apr 21, 2006 at 09:43:07 AM EDT


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.

BranfordBoy :: There's New Hope For Lieberman: "Low-Information Voters"
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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Is Sean Smith the budding Bob Shrum wannabe? (4.00 / 1)
Lieberman sure knows how to pick campaign managers.

"High information voters" (0.00 / 0)
Fortunately, the types of voters that show up for primaries tend to be more well-informed. The date of the primary doesn't seem to get much publicity--so for a voter to even participate in the primary would mean that they have to be more well-informed than the average voter. Because truth is on our side, the better informed a Democratic voter is, the more apt they are to vote against Lieberman. But still, we shouldn't take anything for granted and make sure we do everything we can to get Lamont's name out there.

"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."--James Madison

 
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