Polling Lessons For Obama From Oklahoma City

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.) will introduce legislatio­n next week capping ammunition magazines at 10 bullets, she announced Thursday..­. Republican leaders have aligned themselves squarely against gun reforms proposed even by members of their own party." 

"They" are the cosponsors of this legislatio­n - that's how the process works - "They" will not get the bill on the floor because the Rs control the House - feel the 'knocking on your skull" - that's reality knocking. 
The reality is that if the Dems - especially if Obama - spends a lot of time on this - they are: 
1) not going to get anywhere and 
2) not going to win in 2012 - which means it will go nowhere for the next four years.

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Are you ever mixed up and turned around.

McCarthy's bill is going nowhere BECAUSE Obama and the Democratic leadership aren't getting behind it.

What do you think the point of high polling numbers is, what the bully pulpit of the president is for, if not to use to shepherd through legislatio­n exactly like this after a *shock&awe­* event?  

If the Bush years taught us anything, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid and relentless in your sales pitch and tactics. If you keep at it, escalate your attacks,  don't take 'no' for an answer, never back away, you will wear the opposition down.  By the way, Bush-Chene­y-R0ve weren't geniuses, they didn't invent this strategy, nor was it something that political operatives didn't know or that political science students don't learn in poli sci 101.  Bush & R0ve were just more ruthless in doing what politician­s and the political parties had gone to great lengths to hide from Americans, be more subtle about.  

What Bush-Chene­y-Rove showed Democrats, though, was that there was no need to be subtle. It doesn't matter how you get the rhetoric, the spin, on the table, just get it on the table.  You don't have to go to great lengths to set up a logical or legitimate premise for it.  The shock&awe tactics of having surrogates fan out all over the air waves, with other diversiona­ry news stories competing for air time, will prevent opponents challengin­g you with logical analyses getting any air time, much less any traction.
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