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Focus Group: "Change" is Tired, Hello "Accountability?"
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — ... Focus Group: "Change" is Tired, Hello "Accountability?" Time 's Joe Klein sat in on a focus group of undecided voters yesterday. The results were sobering for both candidates, he writes : for McCain, because he is seen as "more of the same," and for Obama, because his "change" message no longer resonates. What do these people seem to want? Accountability. What do they want? Given a list of 31 personal attributes the next President might have and asked to pick the eight most important, "Accountability" finished highest with 13 votes, next was "Someone I can trust" with 12, ...

Focus Group: Undecided Voters Care Much More About Character Than Issues
TPM Election Central — ... Joe Klein sat in on an independent focus group of 21 undecided voters and learned some interesting things about their priorities in this presidential election: ...

The Details
Matthew Yglesias — Joe Klein visited a focus group: “Change” as a theme is over. Too vague. And Obama’s rhetoric has begun to seriously cut against him. “No more oratory,” one woman said. “Give us details.” I always wonder about this stuff. I mean, it’s inconceivable to me that this woman is genuinely yearning to learn more about the details of Obama’s policy agenda. If she actually wanted to know, she could, you know, look into it. She could learn all about the differences between auctioning emissions ...

Undecideds
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Joe Klein attends a focus group: What do they want? Given a list of 31 personal attributes the next President might have and asked to pick the eight most important, "Accountability" finished highest with 13 votes, next was "Someone I can trust" with 12, "honest and ethical" was third with 11. "Agrees with me on the issues" got one vote. They didn't care if the candidate was a Washington insider or outsider. "A dynamic and charismatic leader" got two votes... Uh-oh. ...

Remainders: Denver, Day 1
Ben Smith's Blog — ... campaign says CNN forced the 3 AM text message. Obama cancels a 9/11 fundraiser. Alex Massie compares Joe Biden to a lovable Irish bore. Bronx Democratic Party Chairman Jose Rivera explains in an amazing video why he's voting for Hillary -- check out the hand motion at about the one minute mark. Gawker calls B.S. on Fox News's attempt to show a slice of anarchy. Biden's book gets rushed into paperback. A Frank Luntz focus group hints that that running against Washington doesn't really turn the ...

Two Things To Read
Blue Crab Boulevard — ... . First, Joe Klein made a visit to a focus group:–"Change" as a theme is over. Too vague. And Obama's rhetoric has begun to seriously cut against him. "No more oratory," one woman said. "Give us details." (There may be a racial component to this, by the way, as some white people associate soaring oratory with African-American leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesse Jackson.)–What do they want? Given a list of 31 personal attributes the next President might have and asked to pick the eight most important, "Accountability" finished highest with 13 votes, next was "Someone ...

Some Election Links
Winds of Change.NET — ... volume of his epic biography, about Johnson’s White House years. "I am writing right now about how he won for black Americans the right to vote. I am turning from what happened forty-three years ago to what I am reading in my daily newspaper...and the thrill that goes up and down my spine when I realize the historical significance of this moment is only equaled by my anger that they are not giving Johnson credit for it." Joe Klein on an undecided focus group - " Focused " So this is Obama's task on Thursday: To convince ...

Jesse Lee: 34 Days Out: "A New Standard for Transparency and Accountability"?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Jesse Lee is the Online Rapid Response Manager for the DNC, this is a daily update on the day's messaging. This morning John McCain spoke at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, saying, "My administration will set a new standard for transparency and accountability." Barack Obama, in turn, spoke in La Crosse, Wisconsin, saying "Make no mistake, we need to end an era in Washington where accountability's been absent, oversight has been overlooked, your tax dollars have been turned over to wealthy CEOs in well-connected corporations. You need leadership you can trust to work for you. Not for the special interests ...