Presidential candidates should take a lesson from Al Franken and his YouTube video announcing his run for the Senate. (Well, that radio thing didn’t work out so well so it’s time to get a job.) The video is a bit long but it has the right tone as Franken talks about his and his wife’s poor families and how the government helped them get their starts in life; it is a fine illustration of his liberal progressive outlook. Franken is not cracking jokes; he’s not talking to a big audience on a big camera; he’s talking to one person: whoever clicks below.
Work with lots of folks from Minnesota. As conservative as they are on social issues, I think he could win all their votes if he sticks to this message and avoids discussing abortion and his parties history of trying to take away their guns.
The Norm Coleman brain trust should fight YouTube with YouTube. Post an Al Franken Air America clip a day asking the citizens of Minnesota if this represents their values and politics. Hoist him on his own liberal (oops, make that progressive) petard.
Great video. He knows how to tell stories and uses those to connect to people. I think he’ll be able to win enough people in the middle to seriously challenge Coleman.
Tobe,
the problem Norm is going to face is that most of the Air America stuff will play pretty well in Minnesota.
Jesse Ventura and now Al Frankin…please stop the madness
PX – agree. Except Jesse was in Predator. Al’s never done anything that good.