The latest Washington Post/ABC poll shows Barack Obama up in double digits against John McCain. The McCain strategy of 100% negative ads and campaign stops that increasingly resemble the Nuremburg Rallies appears to be failing. That a review of the Troopergate affair found that Sarah Palin abused gubernatorial power probably didn’t help – the kind of voter who approves of Palin is not the sort to be dissuaded by facts.
But then, this is the cornerstone of Republican Political Strategy, and has been since Nixon defined it and Reagan perfected it. Go light on facts, go long on character assassination, and you’ll win elections. It’s been working for them since 1980, and entire institutes have been established to promote this corrupt philosophy. That conservatism has failed is now becoming clear to the American people depsite the efforts of those within that movement to obfuscate this with identity politics and smear campaigns. The weight of facts is too overwhelming, and the engines of propaganda that have been successful in propping it up for over two decades are now failing.
What will happen if Obama wins the election, the Democrats widen their leads in Congress, and the fairness doctrine is reinstituted? What will happen to the right-wing propaganda industry? To Fox News and the hundreds of radio stations across the country that spew lies in favor of one political party?
