Republican Strategies For The Election

While the Republican contenders slug it out, someone must be working on strategies for the Presidential Election in the fall.
It will be hard for the Republican candidate to use the following two possibilities, in addition to all those offered up by their operatives. This is because each is best carried out by someone who has residual aspects of one-year-olds.* Nonetheless, they can be attempted.
The two strategies involve splitting. The idea would be to split the Democratic candidate’s followers and thus direct some of their energy away from him and perhaps to the GOP nominee. One possibility is to follow up on what Newt Gingrich touched on in one of the many debates. That is, to show how the underprivileged, whom Obama says he supports, have not been helped by his policies. Their unemployment rates are almost double those of whites, for example. He will counter, of course, but so will the Republican nominee. These points must be repeated and repeated until they gain traction–or evaporate. The internal polls with measure this.
The other area where splitting is a strong possibility is with the unions. If, after some research, the union bosses are found  to be living high on the hog at the expense of their membership, that membership just might not like it. It could be what tips the balance for them, as they struggle with their pleasure principle of  having a strong country and being first in most everything, and the reality principle of voting for the Obama who has kept so many union workers employed. The idea is merely to point out how Mr. Union Boss has a multimillion dollar home, takes lavish vacations, etc.–if they do. If done successfully, this could erode the enthusiasm of many union members for Obama.
*Splitting is a defense in adults. However, it derives from the normal pre two year old stage of life. Then, the infant considers anyone or anything providing gratification, i.e. giving him/her what they want, as good, and what frustrates their desires as bad. Ultimately, most of us mature and are able to tolerate ambivalence. That is, we consider people and things as both good and bad more or less simultaneously. We don’t get so upset when they frustrate us, and we don’t get so elated when they gratify us. People are good/bad, i.e. gratifying/frustrating. That is part of life. Those few of us who do not get that far really see frustrators as all bad and gratifiers as all good. In politics, those people are divisive. They have trouble working with the other side, as their venom is perceived and puts the other side off. I don’t have to point them out, as you and I know who they are in politics.