dream. i am you dream. he connected and won. the i am you strategy really exploded in 2008. every day american people, joe six pack, hockey moms across the nation, i think we need to band together and say never again. never will we be exploited and taken advantage of again. reporter: and some political strategists say it might be a tired tactic, the idea of you running for the country resinated with a lot of folks. who are they most likely to trust? themselves. reporter: but is that what voters really want? do they want a peanut farmer? a cowboy, a good old boy, or a hockey mom? you know, someone just like them to run the country. in the end, zimmerman, a democratic strategist says, no. this election s not about whether a politician is like the
don t care what they re running for on a national level, they ought to be able to figure out a supreme court decision and say we re going to get asked the supreme court decision question. to me it s a lack of preparation. a freshman campaign. of course, these people are running on hope. not on experience. president obama ran on here s why i m a different guy. i m from outside washington. i ve only been there two years. and there s a learning curve there. sometimes when they get to the debates. remember the first couple of debates. everybody said he s new to this. sometimes it works for you, i have to say. i don t know that people sat out there in delaware i mean, certainly some people did. but i don t know that people went, oh, i m not voting her because she can want name a supreme court decision.
establishment. that s what people want to hear in a bad economy and when they can t find a job. you ve hit on something and it does seem every politician is fighting for the i m just like you crown because of the anger. so, it must work, right? we wondered. so, does it work? do you want a politician in office just like you? christine o donnell wasn t the first to say she s you. i m not a witch. i m not you ve heard. i m you. reporter: but you could argue she was the first to say it in a way that arrested america s attention in a way few politicians have. parodies aboind, queue youtube. america s a 300-pound bearded diabetic man. send me your donations, and i will go to grandma s house and
we do our best to make that work. deal! my money. my choice. my meineke. we re not quite sure of all of the specifics or what exactly is happening. all we can tell is that the brooklyn bridge has been evacuated, clear. they re not letting anybody cross over. we re sending crews over there. we re not sure what s going on, why this has been done, but we want to let you know, if you re wondering about what s happening, if you live in the area, we re working it and will brung you as much information as possible as soon as we get it. remember when american presidents were on a pedestal, very polished, proper, and nothing like most ordinary people. think fdr, jfk, even ronald
beginning. once they sit down for interviews or debates, they re caught with, you find out the depth of your knowledge. christine o donnell created quite the momentum. it came to the debate. she was asked about stream court cases. she says i can t think of any. i ll post them on the website. i don t want to pick on sarah palin or christine o donnell. but we re seeing that among more than just these two. why is that? because they focus on the issue. they haven t educated themselves enough? sure. if you ve never run for office before, sarah palin was not on the national scene before, you would think they would go back and see the questions that other people get asked. about now, i think probably every candidate out there, i