Este es el número de personas que vieron a Obama ayer en televisión. Un nivel de audiencia propio de los grandes eventos deportivos como la Superbowl o las Series Mundiales de beisbol y baloncesto….
Un límite difícil de superar por la Convención Republicana, ni siquiera con su nueva estrella mediática Sarah Palin.
En Fox entrevistaban a una portavoz de Barack Obama, Anita Dunn, parece que la elección les tiene un poco desconcertados, nada que ver con el video de Biden con el que Mccain recibió su elección:
MARTHA MACCALLUM: we’ll bring in anita dunn. she is a senior advisor to the obama campaign. good afternoon. your campaign’s reaction to john mccain’s voice for his v.p.
ANITA DUNN: good afternoon, martha. obviously, it’s a big surprise for many people. certainly senator obama and senator biden have extended their congratulations to governor palin and welcome her voice and see her as yet another example of how the faces and the barriers in politics are changing. i think that’s a good thing. sarah palin doesn’t represent a lot of change from our perspective. she has been a huge supporter of the bush-cheney-mccain economic policies. she has been very much in line with the policies of the last eight years that have brought us to where we are today. from our perspective, we welcome her and obviously it’s exciting for her. she is not exactly a household name, as you pointed out. a big surprise. i think there are a lot of questions people across the country have about her in her record. those will be answered in the coming days.
MARTHA MACCALLUM: anita, i bet some folks would say it wasn’t until recently that barack obama wasn’t exactly a household name. he is much more than that now, looking at the huge response he got in denver last night. when you look at sarah palin, just taking it from what the other side of this coin would say, she shores up the base to a certain extent, you must admit, because she brings in conservative voters, the base with which john mccain has had some problems at this point. there are a lot of conservative folks who feel very good about this choice. she also some would hope from a mccain campaign perspective, that she will reach out to some of those woman who are not totally sold on barack obama because she has the historic stature of being the first republican woman vice-presidential nominee.
DUNN: she does shore up john mccain’s very, very conservative based problems. because as she would be the first to say, she is a very, very conservative person in terms of social views. to that extent, i think going to the hillary clinton voters of women. as debbie schulze said she is no hillary clinton. hillary clinton is someone who everyone knew was ready from day one. she had the experience. she had a record of working for equal pay, of working for women and children. she has a terrific public service record over a very long time. you know, i think sarah palin is — she is obviously a relatively young, accomplished woman. i think all of us look at that wonderful family and say you go, girl. but at the end of the day, the fact of the matter is i don’t think anybody is arguing that she is actually ready from day one and given that john mccain himself has tried to make experience such an initial this campaign, you have got to say to yourself are they kind of conceding that they have lost that argument, because at the end of the day, the choice here is between whether you’re going to have more of the same which is what john mccain is promising or whether you are going to have the change we need to make this one work for the middle class.
MACCALLUM: what they are going to say is she has more experience than barack obama who is running at the top of your ticket because she has been a governor since 2006. she has a lot of small business experience as well. she was a mayor. she has a lot more sort of managerial. she has run things. she is a governor. she is the only governor out of the four people who make up the two sides of these tickets.
DUNN: well, martha, we certainly respect her experience, but let’s be real here. barack obama has been in public service now for over a decade. the fact of the matter is that sarah palin was the part-time mayor of a town in alaska that is fewer than 10,000 people and has been governor for fewer than two years.
MACCALLUM: but when she was doing that —
DUNN: let me finish, please.
MACCALLUM: i’m playing devil’s advocate, because when she was doing that, he was a community service worker in chicago. it may not be one that is easy to argue, barack obama versus sarah palin when you’re looking at experience.
DUNN: the fact of the matter is let’s be real here, that sarah palin is a refreshing and new voice for the republican party but she espouses the same old policies. barack obama who has been in public service, who has actually done things in public service, who has expanded health care to children, who with senator dick lugar, a republican, wrote the law on nuclear nonproliferation, who has actual substantive achievements in public office, i think people are going to look at that. but they are going to look more at what kind of change do we need in this country? john stain is not going to bring the change we need because he is for just more of the same policies. for eight years, john mccain has espoused the bush economic policies.
MACCALLUM: i think you’re right to point out, in the end i do think that people will vote for the top of this ticket, whether it’s john mccain or barack obama.
DUNN: absolutely.
MACCALLUM: and what kind of sort of rounding that out each of these v.p. candidates bring to the floor. i think it will be very interesting to see sarah palin and joe biden debate. it will be an interesting exchange. anita dunn, thanks very much for talking with me today. good to speak with you.
Gallup ha publicado su tracking diario, realizado durante la Convención, desde el martes hasta el jueves. Si ayer la ventaja era de 6 puntos hoy sube a 8 (49-41), habrá que esperar a mañana para ver si el discurso de Obama ha convencido a algunos indecisos.
Lo del sms fue un puntazo y nos tuvo en vilo toda la noche pero la mañana de este viernes tampoco se ha quedado corta. Todo el mundo está pendiente de la elección de Mccain y los ecos del discurso de Obama se van difuminando, entre los ruidos de la elección.
Primero han sido los descartes telefónicos de los favoritos: Pawlenty y Romney, luego los rumores sobre un avión que voló de Alaska a Ohio, pagado por un amigo de Mccain, y una misteriosa mujer con dos niños que bajó del vuelo, calificado como secreto… Todo parece apuntar a la Gobernadora de Alaska, Sarah Palin 44 años, 5 hijos, el último nacido con sindrome de Down hace escasos meses, una personalidad dinámica, elegida en 2006, contraria al matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo pero a favor de otros derechos para los gays, activista Provida, miembro (o es miembra) del NRA, con un curriculum en defensa de la ética pública, vendió el jet del Estado al llegar al poder. Además de ser mujer, tiene fama de independiente y lidera el debate sobre la necesidad de extraer petroleo en las costas norteamericanas…. Su problema es un pequeño contencioso por el que le acusan de haber echado de su trabajo a un excuñado, exmarido de su hermano.
Antxon la señaló en febrero no dejen de leer la descripción, y sus aportaciones al ticket.
– Escenario sobrio y presidenciable: aportaba credibilidad y autoridad al candidato demócrata. Repleto de banderas, además quedaba muy bien en cámara, hacia viento y ondeaban detrás creando un bonito efecto. Exaltaban el patriotismo por el que tanto se le ha criticado. Nada más entrar al estadio te daban la banderita.
– Más concreto, aunque pueda parecer insuficiente.
– Ataque a McCain: como viene siendo normal en toda la semana, posicionarle como el continuismo de Bush, un dato se repite: McCain votó lo mismo que Bush el 90% de las veces
– Serio y contundente: reforzar la idea de autoridad y liderazgo
– Vídeos biográficos: ante los datos de que un gran número de americanos no conoce lo suficiente a Barack Obama como persona, durante toda la convención se han sucedido su emisión y hoy no ha sido diferente
– Veteranos: reforzar su capacidad como Commander in Chief, incluso ayer y por la falta de tiempo les dio prioridad en detrimento de Bill Richardson que fue retirado del cartel y que finalmente ha intervenido hoy.
– Mi frase favorita: «This election is not about me, is about you». Implicación de sus seguidores en la campaña e intentar paliar la idea de que la elección es un referéndum sobre su persona.
Nadie dudaba que el discurso de Obama sería redondo, y lo ha sido. Desde el principio hasta el final, en torno a la necesidad de mantener vivo el espíritu americano ha ido presentando su vida, la gravedad de la crisis y la responsabilidad de Mccain, la necesidad de cambio, sus propuestas y ha terminado de manera redonda, de manual, haciendo referencia al discurso de Martin Luther King, del que hoy se cumplen 45 años.
Pero qué quieren que les diga, a mi me sigue sonando hueco, poco concreto, y la hope y el change me siguen pareciendo pasos de ciego, que no se sabe bien a dónde conducen. Me dirán que ha prometido salir de la crisis económica, 5 millones de empleos, relacionados con las energias renovables, eliminar la dependencia del petroleo en 10 años, bajar los impuestos al 95% de los americanos, educación para todos, reducir el tamaño del gobierno, mantener la paz mundial y el prestigio norteamericano, pero eso y nada es lo mismo, ahora el problema es de confianza y yo, de momento, no me fío.
Estas elecciones las ganó Obama hace meses, el problema es que las está perdiendo por falta de credibilidad y en eso, en credibilidad, no sé si ha ganado mucho esta noche histórica.