Old Dogs, Old Tricks
POSTED May 14, 6:36 PM
Republican candidates have recently lost hold of solidly Republican seats in Illinois, Louisiana and, yesterday, Mississippi.  Despite these results, the GOP strategy is to just continue to use the same strategy going forward:

On a conference call with reporters today, NRCC chair Tom Cole confirmed that the party will continue using Obama to tar Dem House candidates, in much the way the GOP has historically used figures like Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi to do the same.

The NRCC and the local GOP candidate in Mississippi ran ads tying Travis Childers to Obama and even to Jeremiah Wright, but Childers won yesterday by a comfortable eight-point margin.

But Cole is undaunted by yesterday's results, calling the anti-Obama strategy a "useful tool" for hitting Dems in conservative areas: "I think reminding people that we have a very liberal, and I think very inexperienced Democratic nominee, and that your opponent is likely to be supporting that individual, is interesting." (Link)

I guess a bad strategy is better than no strategy at all.

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