Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Christine O'Donnell, the "Un-Candidate?"

I got this idea from a post from Yahoo, which say the O'Donnell got more coverage than any other candidate in this election.  This reminded me of what was once quoted of Terry Knight, the producer of the rock group Grand Funk Railroad.  Knight said that there was no such thing as bad publicity.  Somehow, Knight was able to leverage all the bad publicity from critics of Grand Funk into great commercial success for the band.  Not only this, it reminded me of the old Seven Up commercials, with Seven Up as the "Un-Cola".  Thus it is cool to be unconventional.  If the critics turn out to be discredited in some way, then someone different can be made to seem appealing.  In the 70's, the Vietnam war made the older generation less appealing.  This led to phenomenons like Grand Funk, who the critics (of the uncool generation) made more appealing by trying to do the very opposite.  Attempts to beat down O'Donnell could have backfired, just as it may have done in the case of Grand Funk.  So, is Christine O'Donnell the Un-Candidate?  Can she parlay her bad publicity into success?

Can she become cool to be uncool with the authorities who are causing all the troubles we see today?

Update:  O'Donnell loses.

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