Are you comfortable leaving your kids with Clinton, or me?
Campaigns that search endlessly for "80/20" issues--proposition that 80% or more of voters favor--often end in failure. Dole talked about how his campaign's focus group had pointed to certain attack lines against Clinton. At one campaign rally, for
example, he asked supporters whether they would feel more comfortable leaving their children with him or with Bill Clinton, because focus groups had told Dole that they would be more comfortable with him. Were voters supposed to be impressed with that?
Source: Courage and Consequence, by Karl Rove, p. 67
, Mar 9, 2010
1996: Are you comfortable leaving kids with me or Clinton?
Campaigns that search endlessly through surveys for "80/20" issues--proposition that
80 percent or more of voters favor--often end in failure or help elect a politician who will be frustrated in trying to enact the policies that got him into politics in the first place.
Dole talked about how his campaign's focus group had pointed to certain attack lines against Clinton. At one presidential campaign rally, for example, he asked supporters whether they would feel more comfortable leaving their children with him or with
Bill Clinton, because focus groups had told Dole that they would be more comfortable with him. Were voters supposed to be impressed with that?
