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Republican, Democratic Strategists Agree About McCain Campaign Failures
In this era of fractured partisan politics it was heartening to hear a Republican and a Democratic strategist agree over why the John McCain presidential campaign failed.
Democrat Hank Sheinkopf and Republican Steve Goldberg both believe McCain lacked a simple, direct message to present to the American people. While Barack Obama was clear, concise and consistent.
Both agree that McCain allowed the party to dictate how he conducted himself and that hurt him in the long run. The race, Goldberg suggests, might have been closer had McCain been permitted to be himself.
The two were my guests today on News Talk Online on Paltalk.com.
Goldberg says McCain failed to define himself. Sheinkopf said Obama told the truth to the American people, while McCain, he believes, “didn’t want to tell the truth.”
Veracity, they agreed, is what a voting public, dissatisfied with the current administration and even more discontented over the performance of Congress, sought.
Both believe Obama faces immense obstacles. But both believe that and failing he has in delivering promises can be attributed for a long time to the state of the nation when President Bush left office.
All he has to do, says Sheinkopf, is be successful in several key areas to be considered an effective president.
Democratic, Republican Strategists To Analyze Election On Paltalk
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Two political strategists, one a Republican, the other a Democrat, will be my guests on News Talk Online on Thursday November 6 to analyze the presidential election and take a look at what the two parties must do now moving forward.
Democrat Hank Sheinkopf makes a return engagement to the show. Sheinkopf has been a political, public affairs and governmental relations consultant for nearly 30 years. He has worked on political campaigns and issue campaigns in four continents, 10 foreign nations, in addition to more than 600 domestic political and issue campaigns in 46 American states.
Sheinkopf was a member of President Clinton’s re-election media team producing ads for the only Democratic president re-elected since FDR.
Joining Sheinkopf will be Steve Goldberg, who pioneered some of the most successful consumer outreach and voter contact strategies employed today by candidates across the country.
Goldberg was recruited by Lee Atwater to work on President Ronald Reagan’s re-election campaign in 1984. Following his involvement in Reagan’s landslide victory in 1984, Goldberg was asked to join then Vice President George H. W. Bush’s campaign for the presidency in 1988. He helped devise and implement Bush’s comeback victory in the New Hampshire primary, the contest that is credited with securing his party’s nomination.
During 1988’s general election contest, Steve became the architect of a controversial direct-marketing telecommunications program which proved to be the largest voter contact program ever performed in the history of U.S. politics.
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Common Ground In Pre-Debate Debate
Democratic and Republican political strategists Hank Sheinkopf and Jeffrey Wisenfeld sounded like two brothers with different mothers as they verbally clashed on News Talk Online on Paltalk over whether Barack Obama or John McCain should be elected president. But on one issue they agreed completely.
“They should be put in jail,” Democrat Sheinkopf declared, referring to those responsible for the nation’s economic mess.
“Absolutely,” responded Republican Wisenfeld.
Of course, on other issues, the partisans differed. Sheinkopf believes America is not well liked around the world, and that an Obama administration would go far to change that image.
Wisenfeld believes McCain is better suited to protect the nation from its enemies.
Wisenfeld also predicts that McCain will surprise those expecting Obama to handily win tonight’s presidential debate. Time will tell whether that will happen. But, clearly, McCain has a lot more to gain, and Obama more to lose.
Democratic, GOP Strategists On News Talk Online
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Two political strategists, one Democrat, the other Republican, will be my guests Friday September 26 on News Talk Online on Paltalk.com to talk about the presidential race and John McCain’s decision to suspend campaigning due to the economic crisis facing the nation.
Hank Sheinkopf has been a political, public affairs and governmental relations consultant for nearly 30 years. He has worked on political campaigns and issue campaigns in four continents, 10 foreign nations, in addition to more than 600 domestic political and issue campaigns in 46 American states.
Sheinkopf was a member of President Clinton’s re-election media team producing ads for the only Democratic president re-elected since FDR.
