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2008-09-17 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Mike 2008-09-17 08:21|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 I'm in a Marketing Management class right now for my MBA. Generation Y is known among marketers for their insatiable appetite for brand names, logos, and above all marketing BUZZ! It is common strategy to over-hype a product if you want to sell it to Gen-Y audiences. Enter Obama....He's a natural for the Gen-Y vote (18-29 year olds).

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-09-17 10:48|| 2008-09-17 10:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Does the McCain camp have someone on Obama's team feeding them ad ideas that will backfire on them? Sabatoge is the only explaination I have for Obama to set himself up to get shot down like this. It allows McCain to once again bring up his POW experience and to display his experience in the Senate on internet and telecom issues. Then what? We are reminded that Obama looks like a stupid, spoiled little kid by comparison. Way to go, McCain-plant-in-Obama-staf. Way to go. I wish I could see this ad, but it's not likely to play in Oregon. We're not in play.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-09-17 11:10|| 2008-09-17 11:10|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm guessing Obama's people are all young and don't realize that not only are they insulting McCain but all of the elderly that find tech a bit off-putting.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-09-17 12:16|| 2008-09-17 12:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Generation Y is known among marketers for their insatiable appetite for brand names, logos, and above all marketing BUZZ!

It's just because they are young and stupid. Consider that Obama's lefty boomer base is made up of the perpetual adolescents who bought into the "packaged rage" sold to them by the evil corporations. Forty years later they are still too dense to see that the brand they are buying is nothing but pleasant sounding hype; promising all and delivering nothing.

Posted by Betty Grating2215 2008-09-17 13:42|| 2008-09-17 13:42|| Front Page Top

#5 18-25 are millenials. I know 2. They aren't Gen Y. My 25 y.o., NYC living, ardently pro-abortion daughter is so turned off that she's starting to lean McCain with no encouragement from her parents who know better than to question her wisdom. Barry's got problems. The 22 y.o. in Chicago is just going to vote for McCain because after 4 years she knows enough.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-17 14:12|| 2008-09-17 14:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Be nice to Senator McCain. He can't send email because he is soooo old he hasn't evolved opposable thumbs yet.

Posted by SteveS 2008-09-17 15:03|| 2008-09-17 15:03|| Front Page Top

#7 LOL

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