# Ask the Senior Obama Campaign Aide **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 25, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-senior-obama-campaign-aide/613985 "2012-02-25T19:10:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-senior-obama-campaign-aide/613985/61 "2012-03-09T14:10:54Z")
Who’s winning the GOP primaries? Not who you’d expect. The kind of story we love: [http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/09/election/2012/obama-gop-campaign/index.html?hpt=hp\_t2](http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/09/election/2012/obama-gop-campaign/index.html?hpt=hp_t2) ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-senior-obama-campaign-aide/613985/62 "2012-03-09T14:28:01Z")
According to [this](http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2012), Obama is dangerously left wing. This may hamper his efforts to attract independents and moderate democrats. Do you think a suitable solution is establishing a national Ayn Rand day, or perhaps hosting a sudden death match where two departmental heads have to duel to the death? Perhaps reinstating feudalism would satiate the more traditional crowd? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-senior-obama-campaign-aide/613985/63 "2012-03-09T17:01:59Z")
All interesting ideas, but I think you may be looking for the Ask a Senior Gingrich Aide thread. The President’s numbers are now up among independents, and from the polling I’ve seen, moderate Democrats never left him. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-senior-obama-campaign-aide/613985/64 "2012-03-14T18:55:24Z")
The President is up over both Romney and Santorum in the latest CNN poll: [http://whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/27/obama-up-in-new-poll/?iref=obinsite](http://whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/27/obama-up-in-new-poll/?iref=obinsite) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-senior-obama-campaign-aide/613985/65 "2012-03-21T03:25:25Z")
And good news for him out of Virginia: [http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/20/obama-leads-gop-in-battleground-virginia/](http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/20/obama-leads-gop-in-battleground-virginia/) ---
**Author:** ![Blkshp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blkshp/32/7135_2.png) [@Blkshp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blkshp)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-senior-obama-campaign-aide/613985/66 "2012-04-04T20:13:54Z")
[quote=“Elendil\_s\_Heir, post:35, topic:613985”] The President is commited to seeing that everyone who is eligible to vote is able to actually cast a vote, and that every valid vote cast is actually counted. But not that every vote is valid? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-senior-obama-campaign-aide/613985/67 "2012-04-04T22:02:24Z")
> [@Blkshp](#): > > > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > > The President is commited to seeing that everyone who is eligible to vote is able to actually cast a vote, and that every valid vote cast is actually counted. > > > > But not that every vote is valid? Did you not read both the words “valid” and “eligible” in that sentence? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-senior-obama-campaign-aide/613985/68 "2012-04-04T22:05:57Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > How are you going to put a stop to the usual GOP voter suppression, intimidation, ID checks, “caging lists,” voter-roll purges, etc., this time around? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > The President is commited to seeing that everyone who is eligible to vote is able to actually cast a vote, and that every valid vote cast is actually counted. We’re working closely with the Democratic National Committee and state Democratic parties to ensure that the 2012 election is free, fair and open. And, as in 2008, we’ll have an extensive field operation to protect the ballot and ensure that the will of the American people is reflected in the election results. > > This might interest you: [http://www.democrats.org/about/voting\_rights\_institute](http://www.democrats.org/about/voting_rights_institute) Now the Pubs are reaching one step back further in the process – [they’re passing laws to discourage voter-registration drives.](http://www.thenation.com/blog/167120/republican-war-voter-registration) What are you going to do about **that?** ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-senior-obama-campaign-aide/613985/69 "2012-04-04T22:07:23Z")
Your quote tags are in the wrong place, **BrainGlutton**. Mr. Campaign Aide, what’s up with your guy coming over all vague when preemptively accusing SCOTUS of judicial activism? ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-senior-obama-campaign-aide/613985/70 "2012-04-04T22:21:23Z")
> [@](#): > > Did you not read both the words “valid” and “eligible” in that sentence? Well, if he wants to encourage eligible voters to cast votes and that every valid vote is counted, that implies that some eligible voters will cast invalid votes. To be really pedantic, the President probably wants every eligible voter to cast a valid vote and every valid vote from an eligible voter to be counted. Though the latter half of that may be tautological if a vote has to be cast by an eligible voter in order to be valid, but can be invalid in other ways. ---
**Author:** ![Blkshp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blkshp/32/7135_2.png) [@Blkshp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blkshp)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-senior-obama-campaign-aide/613985/71 "2012-04-05T00:43:33Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Did you not read both the words “valid” and “eligible” in that sentence? So does “eligible” mean the same thing as “valid”? ---
**Author:** ![Blkshp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blkshp/32/7135_2.png) [@Blkshp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blkshp)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-senior-obama-campaign-aide/613985/72 "2012-04-05T02:50:47Z")
That previous question was not meant to be cute. It seems like a technically eligible voter could cast a ballot for somebody else. One doesn’t really know if the vote is valid if you don’t know that the person who cast is not just eligible but is the person on the rolls entitled to cast that vote. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-senior-obama-campaign-aide/613985/73 "2012-04-05T03:48:19Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Now the Pubs are reaching one step back further in the process – [they’re passing laws to discourage voter-registration drives.](http://www.thenation.com/blog/167120/republican-war-voter-registration) What are you going to do about **that?** The President would veto such a bill if presented to him by Congress. He obviously has no control over state action of this kind, but would discourage passage of such bills, and direct the Department of Justice to take a close look to ensure that no one’s constitutional rights were violated. Filing a lawsuit and seeking an injunction could follow. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-senior-obama-campaign-aide/613985/74 "2012-04-05T17:53:00Z")
Unemployment is down, the stock market is up, and car sales are surging. Life is good. Meanwhile, Romney says Obama spent too much time at Harvard… a year less than Romney himself did. The stoopid, it burns!: [Mitt Romney: Obama 'Spent Too Much Time At Harvard,' Also A Year Less Than I Did | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/05/mitt-romney-obama-harvard_n_1405723.html) ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-senior-obama-campaign-aide/613985/75 "2012-04-05T19:07:08Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > The President would veto such a bill if presented to him by Congress. He obviously has no control over state action of this kind, but would discourage passage of such bills, and direct the Department of Justice to take a close look to ensure that no one’s constitutional rights were violated. Filing a lawsuit and seeking an injunction could follow. Bah, he couldn’t even be bothered to get the Dept. of Justice to go after the guys on Wall Street who screwed the economy. I doubt he’d bother with something like that … might make him look like a liberal. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2012, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-senior-obama-campaign-aide/613985/76 "2012-04-06T17:24:05Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Unemployment is down, the stock market is up, and car sales are surging. Life is good. > > Meanwhile, Romney says Obama spent too much time at Harvard… a year less than Romney himself did. The stoopid, it burns!: [Mitt Romney: Obama 'Spent Too Much Time At Harvard,' Also A Year Less Than I Did | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/05/mitt-romney-obama-harvard_n_1405723.html) Romney spent time at Harvard but he didn’t inhale. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-senior-obama-campaign-aide/613985/77 "2012-04-06T18:44:15Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Romney spent time at Harvard but he didn’t inhale. Well, even if you disagree with his politics, you’ve just gotta admire that kind of lung control. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-senior-obama-campaign-aide/613985/78 "2012-04-17T03:00:19Z")
More good polling news for Team Obama, now that Romney is pretty much The Last Republican Candidate Standing: [http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/16/cnn-poll-gender-gap-and-likeability-keep-obama-over-romney/?hpt=hp\_t3](http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/16/cnn-poll-gender-gap-and-likeability-keep-obama-over-romney/?hpt=hp_t3) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-senior-obama-campaign-aide/613985.md?page=3)