Its not unique to this election or Republican Party. In 2004 Many Democrats believed he had a device on his shoulder so he would be given instructions during the debate. Its snanty. I think in our Politics Today both parties want to construct an image of their opponent that is not grounded in reaty. So the alternative universe. There are two. One is the Romney Campaign had an unrealistic view of what the electorate was going to be and that was one of the reasons they lost. Certainly one of the reasons they went in the election confident. Th wasnt an act. They thought they were going to win. But there is this view of barack obama. If you read and watch the conservative Entertainment Complex how could this guy get reelected because were socialist and week on terism and were not honest and tts not how most of america cease the president. Even those that voted against us, most of them dont see us that way. So that is the problem. I think its an underestimating of your opponents strength an
What happened here was the crux of our terrible National Trial and even americans who arent sure what transpired on these fields know that all the glory and all the tragedy we associate with the civil war resides most indelibly here. Thursday night at 8 00 Stephen Spielberg on the battle of gettisburg beginning thursday on cspan 3 American History tv. Next president obamas former Campaign Manager David Plouffe and Steve Schmidt talk about the 2012 election. Both mr. Playoff and mr. Schmidt attended the university of delaware. Welcome back to the National Agenda program. Im director for the center of political communication. This is the final program of the 2012 president ial election season. Im very very pleased that all of you are here tonight and i know thats a tribute to our two guest speakers this evening. Two years ago in the wake of the sha lacking president obama took in the midterm congressional elections, the architect of the president s 2008 victory David Plouffe stood on thi
That were again setting the really, onn twitter, the web, every day, and they thought that to be a major problem. Absolutely. You also go a little bit about how obama and romney had a different strategy with the press and a different strategy about twitter itself. Compare and contrast those. Well, i think look. I laid out early on in the paper, using the Romney Campaign as a case study of how this is changing and the internet is tough, because romney is sort of a cautious. Dad sort of a cautious guy, a way to build a campaign apparatus, and the Romney Campaign had to play catchup. The Obama Campaign had a bigger staff. They had hundreds and hundreds of people in chicago monitoring every tweet, or whatever. And, again, this is not me speaking alone. Any number of reporters i interviewed for this said they thought the Obama Campaign adapted better to twitter. There are no rules about twitter in newsrooms. This all sort of happened. Like washington, the Political Class discovered twitter
, and this is 45 minutes. Hello, i am james peindell tv, and peter will talk about the point of the paper and what he is trying to study and where it came from, we will ask some questions. This is New Hampshire. It is a tradition. We are going to drill this guy, so, peter, welcome back to New Hampshire. That is very good. This is absolutely excellent. Did twitter kill the boys on the bus . Talk a little bit about the origin of why you had this topic. Kind of two reasons. One, after the campaign, i was jealous, and you may have been jealous about this also. Reflecting and meditating. I am not jealous of their unemployment, but i am jealous of their space, so after the campaign of 2012, i had an opportunity of fellowship at the Kennedy School of government, and i had to write a paper on some aspect of the media and the political media, and i started to think about the difference and 2012, which were the two president ial campaigns that i covered, and i in thethe campaign, bubble, as they
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