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T-minus 1 day and counting...
With the election only a day away, I guess I'm forced to blog about it. I've been thinking about this one for a while, but don't really know what I want to say. Let's just see what comes out, shall we?
I was talking to our campus trainer one day during the soccer game; he's one of the guys who listens to the right-wing talk show in the morning. Somehow we inched near the topic of politics, and he made a statement to the effect that, while a lot of people (implied: you, Sherck) might think he's some kind of ultra-conservative, he's actually pretty moderate and, in fact, styles himself as a "70s-liberal." I have no idea what this means, and neither does any other liberal I've spoken to. But the point is that despite huge doses of right-wing propaganda, he doesn't think of the word liberal as a dirty one. He believes in welfare as a safety net; he believes in...something else liberal, I can't think what. The main issue for him is "the war on terror" and the state of the military, and that's what's brought him, for the time being, over to the Republicans. He believes that Bush has prosecuted the war well and doesn't see Kerry as up to the task.
If Kerry loses (which, of course, shouldn't be possible because the Packers beat the Redskins yesterday), is this the demographic to which we have to look? I suspect that it's one of them, anyway. It may be that he's listened to too much right-talk and is simply lost to us until a terrorist organization blows up conservative radio stations to break the spell.
Though, for that matter, the station does run democratic party campaign ads during the show, completely without commentary from the broadcasters. It probably takes all of their restraint not to say something snide, but they do it, and I'll give them credit for it.
So here's your homework: create an ad for one of these shows that's geared toward convincing more-or-less moderate voters that they really are crazy for following W. Oh, and get it aired by tomorrow morning. Hop to it, will ya?