Some things Obama must do going forward. (For Obama supporters)

[RBInMaine]

In the face of a corporate media bias onslaught and horrid kitchen sinking from Team-Hillary, and Hillary's huge machine and demographics advantages, I commend my candidate Obama for doing as well he has done over these last 6 weeks in cutting a 20-30 point gap in half. So, what to do now?

1) STOP TALKING LIKE THE HARVARD COLLEGE PROFESSOR AND TALK MORE FROM YOUR WORKING CLASS BACKGROUND GUTS: The very essence of politics is COMMUNICATION, and as much as we all love the soaring speeches and the brilliance, he needs to learn to stop being so "metaphysical" both in speeches and debates. Folks want it clear, concrete, down to earth, and from the heart. Obama came out of the middle/working classes and knows what it means to be on food stamps as a kid while his single mom was working her way through school. He plays basketball and not polo. He went to Main Street as a community organizer for laid off steel workers rather than to Wall Street. Michelle also came right out of the working class. He needs to more clearly reiterate that story (over and over again), and dig deeper into those working class voting blocks both with language and with his progressive, populist positions on the issues, STRESSING CONCRETELY what he will DO for people. (Folks want to know what they will GET with their vote.) (* Obama must define himself as the the working/middle class champion, and PROVE IT through his background story. Folks are still getting to know him.)

2)NEVER, EVER CONCEDE A RACE BEFORE IT IS OVER: He should never have said, "I won't win, but I'll get close." When you do that, you can suppress your own turnout. (Just say, "I won't predict but I have worked hard and believe I have a chance.") If some of his supporters thought he would lose anyway, they'd stay home. May have happened in PA as some of his base, mainly young voters, did not turn out as well as expected.

3) NO MORE GAFFES: You all know what I mean.

4) GET THE HELL ON OFFENSE: Yes, keep the "hopeful" and "new" campaign going, but Obama MUST get on offense in both defining himself as the real champion of the middle class and Hillary as the old politics of the status quo. (I know he has been doing some of this, but he must do more.) Her BIGGEST vulnerability is perceived dishonesty, and he needs to SLAM the Clintons on their MANY stretches of the truth and especially as new ones arrive.


He has a good chance to beat her in both Indiana and North Carolina. The campaign MUST be brilliant from here on, and he has to make some changes once again. Not bad in the very tough state of PA with soooooo many Hillary advantages going in, but he has got to re-adjust and change things up again to alter the current dynamics, take some wind out of any Hillary PA "bounce," and beat her going foward.

Any further thoughts?