Thursday, September 2 2004
KERRY'S OUTSOURCING: In his most recent dispatch from the convention, Charlie Cook argues that the Kerry camp needs to hit back at Bush faster and more effectively. He may be right, but that's not the point.

What is interesting is that Cook goes on to contrast the Kerry camp's slow reaction time with the rapid response from one of the many liberal interest groups that consistently attack the President:

One Democratic organization with fast reaction time is America Coming Together, the 527 group that peppers the news media with extremely pointed and timely attacks on Bush. Yesterday, for example, ACT's Jim Jordan, Kerry's original campaign manager, sent out a tart press release pointing out that the Bureau of Labor Statistics had just issued numbers showing July job losses, city by city. Jordan pointed out that Columbus, Ohio, which the president was visiting yesterday, had lost 2,400 jobs in
July, bringing to 11,300 the number of jobs that Ohio's capital had lost during Bush's presidency.

Jordan next pointed to Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where Bush is set to attend a midnight rally after tonight's acceptance speech. Combined, those cities lost 4,300 jobs during July, bringing their total losses back up to 4,800. Next, Jordan pointed to Milwaukee, where the president is planning to go tomorrow and where 7,000 jobs were lost in July, for a total of 12,300.

The Kerry campaign almost seems to do better when it outsources tasks.

Read that last sentence again. Is the Kerry camp really "outsourcing tasks" to a 527 run by John Kerry's former campaign manager? Wouldn't that be, um, illegal coordination or something? - T. Bevan 10:00 am Link | Email | Send to a Friend