The president, are they going after their base, to energize their base, or are they going after swing voters? i honestly think the most important thing is to fire up your base, because the most devastating thing for the president, last time, wasn t even his performance. it was the judgment of his base that he performed poorly, and the depression among the base thinking, oh my goodness, we could lose, all that hang-wri hand-wringing. if the base sis fired up, sees the president getting positive reviews. swing voters, what should they go after? i think it s a specific suck set of voters. that s women. that s where obama has had an outsized advantage among women. that started to erode in the last two weeks after that first debate. that s why i think it s important for obama, if he can, to move the discussion away from the narrow framework set for the first debate and talk about some
The worst day in the agency s history. thinking they were going get bin laden s number two, they allowed a triple operative on to a base thinking he was going to deliver the where abouts of and it turned out he was a suicide bomber and he killed, i think it was a half a dozen cia agents in one base. and that was an awful fiasco for the agency that led to a lot of hand wringing about what had gone wrong and what kind of operations defects that led into that plan. so i think that the memory of the coast fiasco had to have been very high in the minds of the people who were planning this operation.