In Newark, NJ, Mayor Cory Booker marked on the long list of political stand-ins for both President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney, who have turned off completely, addressed a message in a presidential election for his gaffes, which attract attention.
A donor Obama, Booker campaign forced President damage control mode over the weekend, when he made his attack on the regime of Romney to a private equity firm "disgusting" called. It did not take long for the Republicans to the commentary on Mark, and to try for the Democratic mayor to clean up the mess caused by the release, where a YouTube video in which he said it was fair to do for Obama caused his professional past Romney campaign theme.
Obama weighed in Monday as the dust-up on social networking sites, called Booker a "great mayor," but insisted that he continue to talk about the experiences made by Romney at Bain Capital.
"It's important to recognize this issue is not a distraction," the president said. "It's part of the debate we are having in this election."
The result pleased the Republicans, while causing headaches for Obama, illustrates the difficulty for a presidential candidate in control of his message to the era of YouTube and Twitter. He also raised questions about how campaigns should be held accountable for what their supporters _ as a "substitute" in the political-speech known _ or say or do.
"Maintaining message discipline with surrogates has always been a challenge of the modern campaign. In the era of social media it is an exercise in futility," said Chris Lehane, a spokesman for Democrat Al Gore's 2000 presidential bid. "Most surrogates are significant people in their own right with their own views, own constituencies and own press corps, and are used to speaking for themselves and not conditioned to the idea that whatever they say or do will become attached to a presidential candidate."
His effort to soften the blow of his comments Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" didn't seem to satisfy Obama's team. Campaign strategist David Axelrod told MSNBC a day later that Booker was wrong and Romney's experience at Bain "speaks to an economic theory that isn't the right economic theory for the country."
At the same time, bought a gay Republican National Committee ads on Twitter alerted comment Booker, and launched an "I'm with Cory" petition, which refers to a video signatories to it.
Almost everyone who speaks on behalf of a candidate, is a substitute is called, if they greedily close advisor, television experts and donors to make their views known. Some carve substitutes closely related to the conversation campaign. Those who are not quick on the spot.
This is what happened Romney strategist Eric Fehr flux told CNN in March that the campaign "hit a reset button" when Romney was the Republican candidate.
"It's almost like an Etch A Sketch," Fehrnstrom said, referring to the children's toy. "You can kind of shake it up, and we start all over again."
The remark, which immediately went viral on the Internet seemed a story that has long campaigned _ Romney, former governor of Massachusetts is a shapeshifter who can not be trusted as a true conservative increase. Campaign advisers insisted Fehr spoke about the current logistics of running a general election and not the foundations of Romney. But the Democrats took the time to attack Romney anyway.
_ The celebrities often useful to get attention and money to attract a candidate _ can also cause headaches for campaigns.
Talk show host Bill Maher, the $ 1,000,000 at a Political Action Committee supports Ultra helped Obama, a post written on Monday on Twitter, "referring cult" the Mormon faith than Romney. The Obama campaign said Romney's religion should not be part of the campaign.
Maher has also sparked controversy last month when he used an expletive to his HBO program, argued that Romney's wife, Ann, has not worked outside the home. Republicans called Obama to distance himself from Maher and stated that PAC super, priorities for action in the United States should be money to give glory.
This dust-up was similar to others since last month when Obama supported Hilary Rosen, Ann Romney said, "had never worked a day in his life." The Obama campaign quickly condemned the comments and tried to distance themselves, even if Rose plays no role in the campaign. The Obama team fears the lack of a strong rejection of the remarks roses, both the voters and turn signals that the attacks on the wives were acceptable.
Romney campaign had its own problems with a surrogate glory, as Ted Nugent, a rock music star, made provocative remarks about Obama.
Nugent met with Secret Service representatives after a speech to the National Rifle Association in which he referred to Obama's "evil, America-hating administration" and urged voters to "chop their heads off in November." Nugent added, "If Obama is elected, I will either be dead or in jail."
Romney's campaign, which sought and publicized Nugent's endorsement, distanced itself from his comments. "Divisive language is offensive no matter what side of the political aisle it comes from," Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said. "Mitt Romney believes everyone needs to be civil."
That wasn't enough for Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who called on Romney to "condemn Nugent's violent and hateful rhetoric immediately."
Super PAC, to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money that can and should be supported by law from coordinating with candidates, they were banned emerged as a kind of compensation and continued to remain complicated efforts for campaigns on the message.
Romney was forced to resign and for an advertising campaign is planning a conservative __ Super Pac this controversial relationship of Obama with his former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright to answer. Joe Ricketts, the founder of TD Ameritrade was billionaire Securites, with a weight of 10 million contribution to the effort, but said after it became public, and he would not participate in these efforts.
