About Obama’s attacks on John Boehner …

I’m not a big John Boehner fan, but from the get-go, Obama’s personal attacks on the House Minority Leader struck me as one of the Administration’s wackiest campaign tactics.

Based on the latest WSJ-NBC poll :

50% don’t know who John Boehner is …
Of those that do know who he is … 28% view him favorably, 34% view him unfavorably, 38% have no opinion on him.
Combined, over 2/3s (69%) either don’t know who Boehner is or have no opinion of him.

Why would you focus an attack on a guy that nobody knows ?

I must be missing something …

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/WSJNBCPoll09282010.pdf

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One Response to “About Obama’s attacks on John Boehner …”

Frank Says:
September 30, 2010 at 3:13 pm | Reply
A goodly number of those who know Boehner populate the portion of the Dem base labeled “progressives”- or any Dem voter segment that pays extra attention: teachers, public unions.

They’re just firing up a portion of the base they need to vote. It might only be 8-12% of registered voters- but those voters reached positively by this anti-Boehner message probably vote Dem 80-20? That is a valuable demographic in a base election.

It is a message that doesn’t need to resonnate with a large percentage voters to be effective.

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