Tom Crawford writes that Gov. Perdue can say to Sen. Obama: "Been there, done that."
In a post I did yesterday I recounted from a 2006 post Doug Monroe's sharing with me that political journalists Bill Shipp and Tom Crawford and himself enjoy reading this blog.
I noted this because it was part of such earlier post's discussion of Bill Shipp and Tom Crawford that I was using as a lead-in to the subject of Monday's post, The Georgia Gang.
Well, today it seems that the journalistic paths of myself and Tom Crawford may have crossed again, so to speak, assuming the foregoing somehow constituted an initial crossing.
As I shared with you yesterday, Tom Crawford's weekly column from Capitol Impact can be found in Flagpole. I never miss it, and highly commend it to you.
Tom's current column discusses the uncanny parallels between the current Obama and Hillary presidential campaign and the 2002 Sonny Perdue and Roy Barnes gubernatorial campaign.
His current column entitled "We’ve Seen It Before" notes:
"In both campaigns, you had an incumbent favorite who was way ahead in the early polls and seemed to have so much money that they would crush their opposition. That was Roy Barnes in 2002 running against Perdue, an obscure state legislator. You could make the same argument about Hillary Clinton in 2008 [I would have said 2007] - she is so well-known to American voters from her eight years as First Lady that she is, in effect, an incumbent running against the fledgling senator Obama."
After continuing to recount uncanny similarities between these two campaigns, Crawford writes:
"I was talking to a friend who has been working Democratic Party politics in South Georgia for many years. He sees the same similarities between the two campaigns.
"'I remember seeing Perdue come to Douglas one Friday night with Tommie Williams, our state senator at the time, and I said, 'Damn, what they are telling me in metro Atlanta is right. This race is going to be tighter than I thought.' 'Obama's campaign will also go down in history for its organization and strategy,' he recounted.
"'Obama is Sonny Perdue on the ground, plus he has money to boot,' my friend said. 'What a combo.'"
I might not have been there and done that, but I have said that, so I e-mailed Tom to ask if I might "note that the friend quoted just might be the Cracker Squire." By all means Tom wrote back.
Go read Tom's full column, and make it a weekly required reading. You will be better informed on account of doing so.
I noted this because it was part of such earlier post's discussion of Bill Shipp and Tom Crawford that I was using as a lead-in to the subject of Monday's post, The Georgia Gang.
Well, today it seems that the journalistic paths of myself and Tom Crawford may have crossed again, so to speak, assuming the foregoing somehow constituted an initial crossing.
As I shared with you yesterday, Tom Crawford's weekly column from Capitol Impact can be found in Flagpole. I never miss it, and highly commend it to you.
Tom's current column discusses the uncanny parallels between the current Obama and Hillary presidential campaign and the 2002 Sonny Perdue and Roy Barnes gubernatorial campaign.
His current column entitled "We’ve Seen It Before" notes:
"In both campaigns, you had an incumbent favorite who was way ahead in the early polls and seemed to have so much money that they would crush their opposition. That was Roy Barnes in 2002 running against Perdue, an obscure state legislator. You could make the same argument about Hillary Clinton in 2008 [I would have said 2007] - she is so well-known to American voters from her eight years as First Lady that she is, in effect, an incumbent running against the fledgling senator Obama."
After continuing to recount uncanny similarities between these two campaigns, Crawford writes:
"I was talking to a friend who has been working Democratic Party politics in South Georgia for many years. He sees the same similarities between the two campaigns.
"'I remember seeing Perdue come to Douglas one Friday night with Tommie Williams, our state senator at the time, and I said, 'Damn, what they are telling me in metro Atlanta is right. This race is going to be tighter than I thought.' 'Obama's campaign will also go down in history for its organization and strategy,' he recounted.
"'Obama is Sonny Perdue on the ground, plus he has money to boot,' my friend said. 'What a combo.'"
I might not have been there and done that, but I have said that, so I e-mailed Tom to ask if I might "note that the friend quoted just might be the Cracker Squire." By all means Tom wrote back.
Go read Tom's full column, and make it a weekly required reading. You will be better informed on account of doing so.
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