Obama attack strategy not working any better than his policies

Erick Erickson:

Barack Obama’s economic policies have failed to do anything except drive up the national debt. He has not created or saved jobs. He has not gotten Americans back to work. About the only significant industry he has expanded is the printing industry printing all the extra food stamps Americans now depend on.

His campaign attacks do not seem to be working either.

He is winning women, but not by the overwhelming margins he needs to get elected.

He is now losing Catholic voters, a key constituency he won in 2008.

He is even losing Democrats on his Bain Capital attacks. His campaign has spent more time explaining itself to Democrats this week on those attacks than it has been able to level the attacks. It doesn’t help when the Obama campaign is raking in money from Bain Capital and private equity firms while trying to demagogue them.

In a nutshell, the Obama campaign must convince Americans that Mitt Romney would be a worse option on the economy than Americans already believe Barack Obama is. Running a campaign on the message of “you think I’m bad, just look at him” is not really a winning message.

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Obama is unlikely to lose the votes of the Democrats who are critical of his attack strategy on Bain.  But what they are telling him is that he will lose other Democrats and independents with the strategy.   His destroy the messenger response to those who disagree with him is likely to make it harder to get some of his fellow Democrats to work hard for his election.

Recent primaries in West Virginia, Kentucky and Arkansas have seen Obama lose over 40 percent of the Democrat vote to crooks or people with no chance to win.

Some of that is because of his anti energy policies, but the Arkansas vote suggest an antipathy that goes beyond just energy. Alienating voters and pitting one group against another is no way to build a winning coalition.