Message of the Day: Getting out in front of voters, bad. Appearing for sound bite popularity contests, good.

And it’s interesting to see biased memes already popping up in the blogosphere that will almost certainly appear later the mainstream media. Obama got hammered in the debates, he’s scared, blah balh, both of which are either opinion or baseless speculation. And all because political junkies rubbed themselves into a lather of overanalysis.

Thanks Joe, you do the Beltway oligarchy proud by helping slap down with your analysis anyone who goes outside the mainstream. After all, we wouldn’t want to change “the game” in this country, would we? Spoken like a true journalist.

I read a piece (was it on Slate?) that said he was having too many people show up to his events and that was forcing him to rely more on his stump speech than he would like. The campaign said it was explicitly going to try and have more very small events (20-40 people) where only people that are hesitant to vote for him would be encouraged to come.

If this is true and not just spin I can see why. I’ve heard anecdotal reports about him addressing small crowds that had very pointed questions and how he came across as much more honest and thoughtful than just using his stump speech. I think perhaps Obama is doing a really risky strategy: writing off the organized groups and trying to target individual voters and getting them energized — saying that it’s up to them to convince their family and friends. It’s not really a bad idea IMO, because he has something to say that pisses off all the organized lobbies.

That’s how his opponents will likely cast Barack Obama’s decision to forego any more debates than those to which he’s already committed. Obama has eight debates on his schedule between now and the Iowa caucuses, and he will refuse invitations……