Reply #8: The negatives are very interesting as well.

[TayTay]

I did not react to the religious portion of that speech in NH very well either. As spoken dialogue, it just doens't work for me. I know it's sincere, I really think it is, but I also just don't think it's ever going to work. It doesn't look or sound right. I just don't like it. Kerry should have surrogates talk about that and then incorporate the themes more generally into his speeches. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=273&topic_id=75298&mesg_id=75315

This is recoverable though. It is interesting that Luntz posits Kerry as the anti-Bush speaker and then claims that people will tire of this. In other words, he sees Kerry right now as softening up the opposition, but someone else moving in the for the kill. Interesting. However, everyone knows that Bush is not running next time. Anyone with even half a brain will begin to pivot from Bush and to a more positive agenda starting next year. So, Luntz' snapshot of '06 Potentials is just that, '06. The first half of the Luntz analysis on Kerry is really fascinating. People liked that 10 point plan. (I liked it too! It delivered well, but that was a friendly audience, it's really good to see it analyzed by non-New Hampshire people.)

The job will be, as noted here and by other real observers to walk that tightrope of making the case that the present system is broken which is a negative and the positive idea that there are ways to fix it and here are some of them. Hmmm, half way there.