Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Santorum Campaign Strategy

In describing Rick Santorum's potential strategy following his rise after the last series of primaries, I thought this NYTimes article does a good job summarizing the strategic grid we talked about in class


According to the article, Romney needs to Either choose the opponent on candidate strategy or the opponent on opponent strategy, probably the former

Candidate on Candidate:
The Princer Movement, both 'the true conservative' 
and economically middle of the road

Opponent on Candidate

 "Romney needs to find a way to portray his latest rival (fairly accurately) as the consummate Bush-era Republican"


Candidate on opponent:
Flip-flopper, Bain 'wall street insidee'


Opponent on opponent
" rebrand himself with primary voters by embracing a more rigorously right-wing policy agenda"


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