Robert Gibbs to Liberals on Midterms: ‘Everything You Care About is at Stake’
In the media debate over this year’s midterm elections, the “enthusiasm gap” has been front and center. Recent remarks by President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have gotten a chilly reception from the base. At today’s White House briefing, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs cut through the whining and the disappointment, and delivered a pitch-perfect frame for the upcoming midterms. Asked by progressive radio host Bill Press about that enthusiasm gap, Gibbs cited some encouraging poll results, then delivered a call to arms, saying “Everything (Democrats and independents) care about is at stake.”
Discussion of the midterms has centered around the dueling notions that this is a referendum on the Obama administration, versus a choice between the (admittedly slow) progress that has been made and a return to Republican policies that caused the current situation. Gibbs seems to be offering a third frame: that the 2010 midterms are a gun to the head of everything voters elected this President to do.
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