The President Chooses His Ground; The Election  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 401 no. 8763 (Dec. 2011), page 35-36.
Topik: Political Campaigns; Presidential Elections; Economic Policy
Fulltext: The Election.pdf (42.38KB)

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Every time a president seeks re-election, it is something of a parlour game in Washington, DC, to ask which of his predecessors' campaigns he will take as a template. Will Barack Obama attempt to persuade voters, as Ronald Reagan did in 1984, that the darkness of recession was giving way to "morning in America"? The enduring listlessness of the economy makes that a tricky sell. This week Mr Obama put an end to the debate by publicly invoking a different role model: Teddy Roosevelt. On December 6th Mr Obama travelled to Osawatomie, a small town in Kansas where Roosevelt gave a celebrated speech in 1910, laying out the platform that he would eventually adopt as a third-party candidate for president two years later. Before a crowd of 30,000 he elaborated on his longstanding theme of a "square deal" for working Americans--a concept that had made him wildly popular during his nearly two terms in office. America's economy and political system were biased towards the rich, the former president complained; he promised to give the little guy a fair shake. In a speech to a more modest crowd in the local high school, Mr Obama said much the same.

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