Obama v. the McCain-Bush Republicans

[TeamJordan23]

In last night's victory speech, we saw the brilliance of the Obama strategy once again. Obama hinted at this General Election strategy: linking McCain and Bush together on everything.

He started referring to McCain and Bush jointly (i.e. McCain-Bush Republicans, McCain-Bush War, McCain-Bush Tax Cuts). So in a way it will seem that Obama is running de facto against Bush also.

Now this is going to put McCain in a tough place. His goal will be to seperate himself from the failure Bush administration, but he has to walk a very fine line. I don't think he can openly criticize Goerge Bush or the GOP Base, that already does not like him, will get even more turned off. I think if Hillary won the nominee, she would run a similar successful strategy.

And we know McCain will try to only run on the Iraq War/National Security. However, the 2006 election showed that these issues (and the fear along with them) do not carry much clout any more.