¿Una campaña de porche?

Es la improbable idea que lanza el jefe del GOP de Nueva York.

POLITICO.com:

As Chris Christie weighs the obvious appetite for his candidacy against the tremendous logistical impediments and political risks, a prominent Christie admirer is offering a path forward: A campaign run largely from New Jersey, its television campaign waged by an independent Super PAC.

New York Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox, an old Republican hand who is formally neutral, outlined the suggestion in an interview today.

"He just can not desert his job in New Jersey. He's a recently-elected governor with a Democratic legislature on which he's trying hard to impose fiscal discipline," Cox said. "That's the success on which his campaign rests."

"The only way I can see him doing it," he said, is a "modern front-porch campaign," consisting of large-scale policy addresses like his speech at the Reagan Library last week, of participation in debates, and of a basic ground organization -- but none of the immersive early-state retail campaigning that's widely seen as a necessity.

"The air game would be [Home Depot founder] Ken Langone and others doing a completely independent committee," he said.

Cox suggested Christie make a "Christie-like" declaration: "I'm governor of New Jersey, I've got a job to do here. If financial supporters want to go out and do an independent Super PAC, they can do it. I will register to run for president. But my duties as governor come first."

El front-porch campaign es un modelo de campaña que consiste en que el candidato pronuncie discursos desde su estado y no viaje.

El ejemplo más famoso es la campaña de William McKinley en 1896. En aquella ocasión, el magnate del hierro Marc Hanna se ocupó de movilizar a todo el establishment republicano para recaudar más de tres millones de dólares en el mundo de los negocios, y con ese dinero llenó las ciudades de panfletos electorales en favor de McKinley y financió el traslado de gente de todo el país en tren hasta Canton, Ohio, donde el Gobernador McKinley pronunciaba discursos desde el porche delantero de su casa.

Hoy en día se entiende que el porche sería la televisión que llega a todos los hogares.

Sin duda estamos siendo testigos de la semana más surrealista de las últimas campañas.