Sunday, April 13, 2008

A Question

I'm curious how the "Obama is an effete Ivy-League liberal" meme interacts with some of the other memes about him, e.g. "Obama is a radical black nationalist" and "Obama is a brainwashed Muslim Manchurian candidate." Does it displace them or does it enhance them? Or neither? There was recently a poll showing some large percentage of voters who'd heard about Jeremiah Wright still believed Obama was a Muslim, suggesting (perhaps not surprisingly) that voters can and do hold contradictory ideas... which would suggest that the GOP can employ each of these memes simultaneously without undermining the others.