The Fearful Voter

The Fearful Voter
David Corn
September 15, 2004
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In this week’s edition of Loyal Opposition, Corn takes stock of the Kerry campaign’s inability to catch fire. Everyone these days has advice for the presidential contender. But what’s the campaign to do when fear is the prime motivator of this year’s voter?

Now is the season of unsolicited advice. Every day, pundits tell John Kerry what he must do to right the course of his campaign and cruise toward victory. Morton Kondracke says Kerry must issue a clear declaration that he is willing to stay in Iraq until the United States prevails. Tim Russert notes that Kerry “has to get the emphasis back on the economy, back on the war on Iraq—make the war on Iraq different and distinguishable from the war on terror and make this campaign a referendum on George Bush.” Washington Post reporter Dan Balz observes, “He has to focus his message on Iraq in a way he hasn’t been able to….He has to figure out a way to get this debate as much as he possibly can on domestic issues.” Others offer helpful tips: push health care, bash Bush, produce a plan for cleaning up Bush’s mess in Iraq (as if such a plan would be easy to craft).

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