Sunday, January 27, 2013

White House/OFA gun-control project off to inauspicious start

This week, the Entity Formerly Known As The Obama Campaign transformed itself into a lobbying/grassroots activist group, intending on leveraging its microtargeting and marketing success into generating a groundswell of support for Obama’s political agenda. - HotAir

Their first project — frighten legislators into backing Obama’s gun-control proposals by touching off a deluge of phone calls and communications to Capitol Hill offices. So far, though, the genius of the campaign seems to be somewhat lacking....

There’s a reason why Democrats refused to renew the assault-weapons ban in 2004 and had stopped talking about gun control between 2000 and last month — it’s not popular. The people who will get passionate about gun control and organize on its basis are its opponents.

They may end up learning that lesson the hard way a second time.