If you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.
Barack ObamaYoung people: I understand this is important to you, but as you be thinking about climate change, the economy and jobs, war and peace, maybe way at the bottom you should be thinking about marijuana.
Barack ObamaPart of American leadership is making sure that we're doing nation building here at home. That will help us maintain the kind of American leadership that we need.
Barack Obama