If you’re north of 40, the idea of Democrats being on the winning side of the social hot buttons of the day is still hard to get used to. But this is what it looks like.
Democrats grabbed hold of Obamacare and held it high during the first night of the convention.
It’s one of the of the GOP’s most devastating rhetorical punches: Obama has not created a single net new job since taking office.
But how you calculate the numbers, which numbers you use, and how much longer Republicans will be able to make that argument give you a lot of insight into the recession, the anemic jobs picture, and the GOP strategy to torpedo the recovery as a way of defeating Obama.
Twitter reports that Michelle Obama’s speech generated nearly twice as many tweets per minute as Mitt Romney’s speech. And Julian Castro’s keynote speech almost matched Romney’s.
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From TPM Reader AL …
With regards to reader ML’s comments on the convention:
I only have the 2004 and 2008 conventions to compare it to, and so far the democrats seem almost super-humanly organized on messaging. Every speech is hitting some kind of trifecta of explaining the party goals in philosophical terms, boasting of Obama’s policy achievements to move towards them, and taking a hit at Romney for having the opposite position.
I often wonder: how is it that political spouses often end up being such good speech makers? This was an amazingly good delivery. But Ann Romney’s was pretty good too. Giving a lengthy speech in front of millions of people is really, really hard. It takes a number of skills wrapped into one — timing, a good speaking style, coolness under pressure. It’s no secret that most politicians can do it reasonably well. That’s why they’re politicians. Baseball players are good athletes. Well, that’s how they became baseball players. But again, it doesn’t necessarily follow that the spouse is good at it too.
But man, that was pretty good.