The Obama 2012 campaign is none too happy about a recent Washington Post article that claimed voter registration is down in two of Obama’s key demographics – Hispanics and blacks.
The Obama campaign came out swinging this afternoon with this blog post in response to WaPo’s article, which was published last Friday:
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One of the most important successes of the historic 2008 campaign was the Obama-Biden ticket’s ability to expand the electorate—not just with first-time voters, but with eligible voters who for the first time felt they were being heard.
The blog goes on to claim that in 2008, more young people, black people and Hispanics came out to vote than in previous elections. The blog provides no evidence for this information, so I did Obama the favor of finding it for him. I guess his campaign’s college student volunteers were no where to be found today.
The supporters who make this grassroots campaign what it is understand that principle. Unfortunately, sometimes the media does not. The analysis on which the Post based its mistaken claim is fundamentally flawed in several ways.
I’m not overly concerned with the Post’s article in and of itself. But I am baffled that the Obama campaign is attacking the mainstream media and Obama administration ally, The Washington Post.
Does the Obama 2012 campaign really think it can pull off the whole “the MSM is working against us” meme? If the Obama campaign thinks even the The Washington Post – which is not conservative by any standard – is trying to make it “harder” for Obama to win, his campaign is going to find itself not just with fewer blacks and Hispanics on Obama’s side in 2012, but fewer allies all together.
The Obama 2012 campaign may have some slick web ads, but the campaign’s research briefings are going to have to get a whole lot better if it wants to compete with the Republican National Committee.
