“To Change Washington, Move Out”

I know it might not fit traditional campaigning wisdom to steal campaign ideas from a NY Times Editorial but if I was part of the Obama or McCain campaign, I would be all over this recommendation by Mark W. Everson. Seriously, this is a brilliant idea that a) gives specifics on how to “change” the Washington DC culture b) actually produce good policy and c) can be tailored to target specific voters in battleground states in order to improve their job opportunities. ” Vote for me and I’ll bring the Department of Homeland Security to Pennsylvania.” “Vote for me and I’ll bring DC jobs to the state of Michigan.” What’s even more beautiful is that you don’t have to worry about pissing off DC constituents because they have no electoral college votes anyway! It’s win-win all around! Of course, it also happens to be gimmicky and remarkably unlikely of ever becoming actual policy but it would make a great campaign speech and the press has proven to be a sucker for these types of gimmicks. They eat this shit up. So give it to them.

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