Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Sheheen Campaign has few options, with damaged Democrat brand

Sheheen will have to use Common
Core math or import busloads of
Philadelphia precinct bosses to
get the numbers to favor him.  
Sen. Vincent Sheheen, the Democrat candidate for governor has a new TV ad criticizing Gov. Nikki Haley.
The ad attacks Haley for not immediately making it public that hackers had breached the S.C. Revenue Department's data base and took the financial information of millions of the state's taxpayers.
If the data breach is the best Sheheen can do, after her four years in office, he has next-to nothing.
Voters should fully expect the media to produce a victim of the data breach, closer to the election. But the truth is, the data breach likely led to more people securing their personal information. And that decreased identity theft.
Not only that, taxpayers were victimized, and the state used their money to buy taxpayers identity protection. The people paying finally got something back.
Sheheen's bigger problem is the damaged brand of the Democrat Party.
Democrats have made such a mess of the U.S. economy, Sheheen should be hiding the "D" beside his name (he probably is.)
Natioanlly, foreign policy is a mess and healthcare costs are skyrocketing, along with already high gas and food prices. On top of that, the jobs rate and incomes are down.  Race relations are abysmal, with mass polarization.
And the Blame Game is over. It's laughable to hear Democrats invoke the name of Bush as an explanation.
South Carolina voters usually get it, at least on the Big Picture scale.
And the fact that we understand the difference between Democrat and Republican results, is bad news for Sheheen.

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