All Things in Moderation

Open Secrets 7/27/16

7 Responses

1. 

   Kevin S. Willis, on July 27, 2016 at 5:31 pm said:

   Frist!

   Scott Adams think the Democrats have been selling past the close:

   http://blog.dilbert.com/post/148050318231/selling-past-the-close

   And guesses that’s not going to go down well with men who aren’t already effectively women.

   On the surface, the convention is going great. Michelle Obama made a speech for the ages. Bill Clinton was his masterful self. Bernie gave a full-throated endorsement of Clinton. The whole affair has been a festival of inclusiveness. The media is eating it like cake. All good, right?

   That’s how it looks on the surface. And if you’re already a Clinton supporter, it probably looks great all the way down.

   And that brings us to a concept called “Selling past the close.” That’s a persuasion mistake. Clinton has already sold the country on the idea that a woman can be president. Sales experts will tell you that once the sale is made, you need to stop selling, because you have no chance of making things better, but you might give the buyer a reason to change her mind.

   Obama understood how to avoid selling past the close. At some point during Obama’s first presidential election campaign the country mentally agreed that an African-American could be their next president. So Obama accepted the sale and talked about other stuff. If he had dwelled on race, and his place in history, he would have risked making things worse. So he stayed quiet on race (mostly) and won. Twice.

   LikeLike

   Reply
2. 

   Kevin S. Willis, on July 27, 2016 at 5:42 pm said:

   “Leaks show DNC asked White House to reward donors with slots on boards and commissions”

   Bah, ignore all that. What’s important here is Donald Trump wants Communists to rig the election.

   Is this the first time the Democrats have been openly terrified of Russia? Not defending Donald, but I’m amazed at the orgy of “omg Russia is about to invade, the Russian army is about to march and Americans are going to start being arrested based on Russian intel in Donald Trump’s America” going on (it’s 90% of the PlumLine comments presently). Holy mac and cheese.

   LikeLike

   Reply
3. 

   Kevin S. Willis, on July 27, 2016 at 5:52 pm said:

   Jonah Goldberg blames liberal media for inevitable Trump presidency:

   http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-goldberg-trump-msm-cry-wolf-20160726-snap-story.html

   LikeLike

   Reply
   • 

     Brent Nyitray, on July 28, 2016 at 9:02 am said:

     Jonah nails it..

     LikeLike

     Reply
4. 

   Let the mutherfuker burn!, on July 27, 2016 at 7:23 pm said:

   .@jamestaranto With their born-again fervor for national data security, I guess the Times will be returning that Pentagon Papers Pulitzer

   — David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 27, 2016

   LikeLike

   Reply
   • 

     ScottC, on July 27, 2016 at 9:16 pm said:

     Great point from Iowahawk, Mcwing

     LikeLike

     Reply
     • 

       novahockey, on July 28, 2016 at 9:16 am said:

       Iowahawk 2016

       LikeLike

       Reply

Be kind, show respect, and all will be right with the world. Cancel reply

Enter your comment here...

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Email (required) (Address never made public)

Name (required)

Website

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out /  Change )

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

Notify me of new comments via email.

Notify me of new posts via email.