Josh Marshall offers an interesting take on the GOP strategy of attacking Democratic presidential candidates that seems to make sense. The gist is that the substance of the attacks is not important — only plays to the committed conservative — so much as the attack itself and the response it engenders. A poor response creates the impression of a weak candidate, which dooms the candidate in the mind of voters.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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