An idea I'd like to float around these parts is for Barack Obama to take a page out of Ross Perot's book. Does everybody remember in the 1992 election when Ross Perot would purchase blocks of time on the major broadcast networks and expound on his plans in great detail, with charts and all. 1992 was a formative year in my political consciousness, I was 11 at the time, and following the Presidential race closely, hoping George H.W Bush would be defeated. Although I loved Bill Clinton and was in a naturally Democratic area, Ross Perot captivated my attention with his detail.
So I was thinking, maybe when things get close, and if Barack still has a good deal of money to spend at the end, he could take a similar approach and buy out some time and do some infomercials where he talks to the people directly. Perot almost won 20% of the electorate with a third party effort, and the TV broadcasts were an instrumental part of that.
Barack might not use as many charts and be as dryly detailed, but a clear, straight talking effort, to reach every American with a TV, and then to be rebroadcast whenever one wishes on YouTube and here on his sight, giving Barack a chance to talk to all the American people, unfiltered, AFTER the debates....might help seal the deal!!!!
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