New Obama campaign video: what it may say about his reelection strategy

[falling_cookie]

The Tom Hanks-narrated video, as judged from the just-released trailer, sheds light on the Obama campaign's likely themes. Among them, that voters should take the long view.

By Peter Grier

President Obama’s reelection campaign released a two-minute trailer Thursday for “The Road We’ve Traveled,” an upcoming short film about the Obama presidency. If

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[screamingintune]

I gotta say, on a purely superficial spectator level, I am interested to see how the Obama '12 campaign goes. Criticize him all you want, but he and his team are brilliant campaigners. Considering how the most well-organized of the GOP candidates, Mitt Romney, is stumbling and failing hard, it'll be interesting to see if Romney's camp can step up to the plate. I think the inability to be a calculated and shrewd campaign that is good at vetting and stopping leaks really sank the McCain campaign

[hinoema]

I want to see if they address the fact that Republicans have abandoned political discourse in favor of religious persecution. (That's persecution for the Church, not of it.)

[carmy_w]

I don't think they'll go there, but I do expect them to really push women's rights.
Of course, the people that choose to vote for ANY of the Repub. candidates based on their religious beliefs will NEVER vote for that evil muslim who's desecrating the white house, so....

[intrikate88]

I totally agree. I would love to have some sort of internship or assistant job with all of this, just for the sake of getting such a quality experience of marketing and branding and storytelling. I think it'd be really educational.

[eyetosky]

Honestly, even the most shallow observations about candidate's campaign strategy and team always held a lot of weight to me. I remember last election, even just their websites told me volumes.

Last election, I think I went off in the comments once (almost four years ago, lol HOW LONG HAVE I BEEN HERE?) about how it little things like the fact that Obama and Biden's photos on the site looked like they were actually part of the same photoshoot (unified lighting, angle, color treatment), and how all the information that a potential voter might was to find was instantly accessible spoke volumes about the attention, training, and planning put forth by his team

[mirhanda]

he and his team are brilliant campaigners.

Ah, but now we do know that he'll throw us under a bus to make sure the insurance company executives get to keep on screwing us all over, so I don't know how much people will believe him now. I know I take every word that comes out of his mouth with a grain of salt now, because I really believed him before. Now I know that at the end of every promise there is an implied "as long as it doesn't hurt rich folks."