Against the Republican party.

Editor,

This election is about coattails.

President Obama should run vigorously against the Republicans in Congress, energizing Democratic and Independent voters despite Republican efforts nationwide to suppress poor, minority, and elderly voters' access to the polls.

Romney's line that the president has "failed" presents a perfect opportunity for Mr. Obama to: a) make Romney irrelevant in the general election by relentlessly reframing Romney's specious claim that the president has failed as failure of the Republicans in Congress, and b) run not against Romney but the Republican party.

Re: "Romney Scores Nevada Victory With Broad G.O.P. Support" (2/5/2012)