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Ideological vs. Personal Campaigns 11/7/2006 Roughly 8:15 p.m.
Fred Barnes says this has not been an ideological election - it has not been framed in terms of liberal versus conservative. He echoed Bill Kristol's comments who noted, for example, that the Allen-Webb race was personal, not ideological. And yet, as Kristol observes, in many of these races, the self-described conservative is doing better than the self-described liberal. In other words, if you want to win, you ought to be conservative and run on the issues.
The Democrats have definitely picked up on that reality and have run some surprisingly conservative candidates - Heath Shuler was an example they used; Harold Ford certainly tried to look as conservative as he could.
Kristol pointed out that Allen currently is running 10-points behind the marriage amendment. If Allen had made this a more ideological campaign, Kristol's implication is that Allen might well be doing better. Morton Kondracke noted that as soon as Allen was caught in a "personal" situation of his own, it seems as if he decided he had to rely on a "personal" response instead of an "ideological" one.
That exchange made a lot of sense. |
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