Apparently @MMFlint, Michael Moore, despairs of Barack Obama's ability to triumph over "President Romney".
Moore has his reservations about President Obama, and that concerns me. Moore spoke to Piers Anthony Sunday night, and Moore expressed dismay that the president spoke in Aurora, Colorado, to the families of the lost, and the president said current gun control laws are sufficient. It might help for me to review a transcript of the conversation with Morgan, but that's what I took away.
Moore spoke from the pulpit at Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids last Thursday, and he raised the prospect of a Romney victory. Obama swept to office in 2008 on a wave of popular enthusiasm that might not be repeated. Moore pointed out the The Boss, Bruce Springsteen, has a vote for Obama. However, Springsteen might not perform concerts to raise funds, get young people registered and turn out the people to go to the polls. Obama needs this enthusiasm, which can't be bought.
Enthusiasm can level the fund raising equation, and without enthusiasm, the Obama dollar doesn't go father. And if Obama is beat in fund raising and can't leverage the social media X factor, Romney's effort might triumph. Obama will need two voters for every three that reaches the polls due to voter verification or "voter suppression", terms depending upon your viewpoint.
Much is going wrong in the Obama camp. For example, shaming Anne Romney for owning a fine horse will proved to be beating the proverbial dead-horse. The Obama camp has to conduct better analysis
of wedge issues, better examination of the depth psychology of the voters on the margins. Sing to the Obama choir yes, but also find a way to talk to those disaffected 2008 Obama voters.
Michael Moore in New York City's Union Square Barnes & Noble to discuss his book Here Comes Trouble.
13 September 2011
Author David Shankbone, http://blog.shankbone.org/about/
Piers Morgan
http://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/
Here comes trouble, and maybe for President Obama's re-election prospects.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/here-comes-trouble-michael-moore-book
The Rapidian comes away with an excellent story discussing Moore's appearance at Fountain Street Church, last Thursday night: http://therapidian.org/grand-rapids-public-library-presents-michael-moore-michigan-author
Mlive covered the Thursday, July 26th, 2012 event from an entirely
different angle:
http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2012/07/michael_moore_fires_up_fountai.html
