In a rally, President Obama said that this election is a "choice between the policies that are getting us into this mess versus policies that are getting us out of this mess". The voters, on the other hand, are asking questions such as "how will we pay almost a trillion dollars for healthcare? Why did we bail out wall street with a stimulus package? Why aren't we doing anything about jobs?" This basic disconnect is the reason why the democrats are losing now and have lost in the past too. They never answer the questions head-on and dive into this heady complex sermons that go nowhere. Look at this article, this article and this article to see what I mean. Obama made statements which sound like typical politicial sound bites and statements which address nothing and is still trying to rally people using 2008 slogans like 'Yes, we can!' and "GW Bush is responsible for the mess we're in."

It's obvious from the article that David Axelrod is the genius behind the 'we're in the mess because of the failed policies of the previoud admin' brainwave. Wow, we couldn't ask for anything better, after two years of running the country, to say that 'it's not my fault, he messed it up'. What is still inexplicable is "why is is so hard to understand that you have to defend, clarify and explain your policies to the people, especially when they are expressing serious concern about most of them". Why does the democratic campaign run away from basic principles such as standing up for your work and strongly refuting blatantly false allegations cooked up by the opponents? Well, it's too late to think about that, but the first we ought to do Wednesday morning is to give David Axelrod the boot and hire somebody with basic smarts such as Tom Perriello.

Why Tom Perriello? This is how easy he makes it look .. when asked about the stimulus package, he said "Let's all act like grown people here. We all know that the stimulus package was necessary to preven the economy from going into depression." and for the healthcare he said "Look, we had to do something about healthcare, as the premiums were going through the roof. This is not a perfect package, but it is a step in the right direction and if we think about new ideas instead of just criticising it blindly we can come up with make it better.".

That's it takes to win an election ... of course, you may ask why is Tom Perriello not leading in that case? The problem is that Tom Perriello's head-on campaign was too little too late, and due to the national democrats 'roll over and stick head in sand' approach while the tea party was ravaging Obama's policies and distorting them and brainwashing the general public with calculated misinformation, some of the mud stuck and has been difficult to wipe clean by just one lone man. But the fact that he is still within striking distance in a race which he won by just 737 votes in a bumper year for democrats shows that honesty and conviction in your actions is always looked up by the American electorate.

I've covered the elements of a simple campaign strategy that can make it a 'slam dunk' for the democrats in this article, but apparently the democrats are hellbent on making it very difficult for them. We cannot tolerate this absolute incompetency in terms of campaigning skills and we have to make sure that the president pays attention to a broader base of advise in terms of campaign strategy and he listens to what an 'average Joe' like us thinks of his campaign and incorporates our inputs.

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