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I even think he was doing this on The View. I understand people want him to be shouting from the rafters for Obama, but that's not going to win over the independents and undecideds. They'll just look at it as more partisan rancor.
What President Clinton is doing is making the case AGAINST "narrative", I think very effectively. If you go up to an undecided person and say "McCain is a wobbly old fool, Obama is the future" they're going to shut off. They won't listen to you. At least not effectively.
If you go in and say "Look they're both great Americans and qualified to be President. We need to get past this character smearing bs, and actually be mature about who we decide is president." then people in the middle and even some on the right, have a much higher chance of agreeing with their disgust at the concept of narrative, and the like, and then getting past the candidates 'character' they might actually look at the issues.
The more people we get to rationally look at the issues the more people vote for Obama. People aren't undecided on Obama because they don't like his positions. The Republicans once again have made this election about character narrative, and not actual facts.
As someone who every election has to deal with many conservative and independent minded relatives regarding politics, I can tell you that this is exactly the first inroad you make to them to get them to open their mind. If you start it by dismissing the bullshit character narrative stuff by saying both candiates backgrounds are solid, there is a good chance you can get people to agree that Obama is a nice guy, not a muslim terrorist, etc. Then you can actually compare policies and make people aware of the candidates positions.
Step 1) Remove partisan narrative character BS Step 2) Find out what issue or issues the person you're talking to cares about Step 3) Explain to them the candidates positions on those issues and good chances are they'll agree more with Obama. (trick here is to remain calm and not blow out McCain's policies as evil or something extreme)
If you can't get past Step 1 there's no chance in hell they're voting for Obama anyway. If you're already in the tank for Obama it's a waste of energy to preach to the choir.
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