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Joe Biden’s ‘Limited Exposure’ Campaign Strategy is Backfiring.
The unintended consequences of what seemed like a good idea on the surface.
There’s no question that I have a multitude of problems with not only Joe Biden as a politician, but the campaign he is running as well. I might as well be upfront that in my view, he is the epitome of everything that is wrong with the Democratic Party, and his slow, steady decline in the polls even before the debates is an indicator that I might not be the only one who feels this way.
Biden’s decades’s long reputation for “gaffes” is one that has always stayed with him, but now that he has set foot in to the political arena once again, we’ve been treated to a healthy dose of his ability to say all the wrong, weird things.
Unsurprisingly, Biden’s campaign probably reasoned that speaking to the press regularly could put a dent in some of his immediate support, and in order to mitigate the situation decided on the strategy of “limited exposure”. Such a strategy in their view would allow Biden to continue to coast through on Obama’s coattails for as long as possible, banking on name recognition and his obvious close association with the former democratic President. A piece published by Washington Post states:
“Aside from a campaign swing…
