Politico:
The National Rifle Association plans to spend about $40 million on this year’s campaign, with $15 million of that devoted to portraying Barack Obama as a threat to the Second Amendment rights upheld last week by the Supreme Court.
“Our members understand that if Barack Obama is elected president, and he has support in the Senate to confirm anti-gun Supreme Court nominees, [the District of Columbia v. Heller decision] could be taken away from us in the future,” Chris Cox, head of the NRA’s political arm, told Politico.
The politically powerful gun rights group will split its message efforts between communicating with its 4 million members and the tens of millions more firearms owners across the country.
My feeling is that few people are worried about their guns being taken away. Really, they must know that Obama isn't going to take away their precious guns. Anyone who's top priority is gun ownership is in the minority or just masking their real opposition to Obama.
It seems Americans are going to be less focused on issues such as guns and abortion. Only the extremists-- on both sides -- see no middle ground. Social wedge issues like those just aren't going to cut it this election.
Americans are going to vote democrat, not necessarily for Obama (though many of us will), but against the republicans, who've fallen down on the job and won't be able to figure out how to get back up in four months.
