"By selecting Barack Obama as their nominee, the Democrats may have given Republicans an opening: the very qualities that inspire many fervent Obama supporters — the candidate’s high-flown eloquence, his coolness factor — have also laid him open to a Nixonian backlash. Unlike many observers, I wasn’t surprised at the effectiveness of the McCain “celebrity” ad. It didn’t make much sense intellectually, but it skillfully exploited the resentment some voters feel toward Mr. Obama’s star quality"
From Krugman's op-ed today.
How the Republicans do this, I don't know, but it's genius and amazing political sleight of hand. It's schoolyard politics; they have turned this campaign into a popularity contest. In a strange twist of events though, they have branded it as an anti-popularity contest: don't vote for the cool snob who looks down his nose at you; vote for us every day normal folk. Here's the ringer, though: McCain is the traditionally popular and cool wingman and Palin is the beauty queen bitch that everyone loves to hate, so how have they become the underdogs in this fight?!?!? Just another brilliant maneuver by the social elite to punish those who try to upset the social order or exist outside it? Class reproduction/preservation? The way of the world?
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