Alienating black/latino voters... (0.00 / 0)

...versus ensuring that white working class and entry-level  white collar voters, especially those in delicate job situations, can be thoroughly manipulated into believing that blacks somehow still have special privileges and latinos are all essentially illegal immigrants?

Let's just say I'd keep my eye open for the recurrence of the phrase "Angry White Male," especially when we have to start paying for the travesty in Iraq.  The Repugs are going to have to go ugly negative in order to bring the turnout down and pull a few folks out of the fire.  And that means they'll need someone scary to blame.

My two bits...

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by: palamedes @ Sun Sep 16, 2007 at 21:25:43 PM CDT

The GOP Strategy (0.00 / 0)

The GOP wrote off blacks back in the late 60s.  They pretend they didn't only for the sake of holding onto moderates like Lincoln Chafee (D'oh!).  That's why every black person with two miles of their nominating conventions gets on TV, when they shoot crowd shots.

The Latino situation is a bit more complicated. Basically it's the exteriorization of the internal conflict between the nativist and the robber baron wings of the party.

George Bush was supposed to fix this.  He's a robber baron who's got the nativist person down cold.

He failed.  Totally.

So, in short, the GOP has absolutely no reason to show up at these debates.

But the figure--quite rightly, I think--that they can still be okay if the Dems shoot themselves in foot enough times.

"You know what they say -- those of us who fail history... doomed to repeat it in summer school." -- Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 6, Episode 3

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by: Paul Rosenberg @ Sun Sep 16, 2007 at 21:50:29 PM CDT

Plausible deniability. (0.00 / 0)

That would be my reason they should show up.

Otherwise I agree completely.

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by: brklyngrl @ Sun Sep 16, 2007 at 22:26:08 PM CDT

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Can't speak on Latinos (0.00 / 0)

But on AAs I will say they could show up all they want, and they have still lost us for a generation, and hopefully more. Well,t hat is if the GOP doesn't muck it up.

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by: bruhrabbit @ Sun Sep 16, 2007 at 21:57:57 PM CDT

didn't you hear? (0.00 / 0)

Obama is done. http://www.openleft....

Matt said so. So why are you still talking about him?

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by: the new @ Sun Sep 16, 2007 at 22:01:22 PM CDT

Believe it or not, (0.00 / 0)

Matt doesn't tell me what to write.

Although I have a great deal of respect for his opinion (and thought his point about coalition building there was actually a smart one) we don't always agree on everything.

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by: brklyngrl @ Sun Sep 16, 2007 at 22:28:13 PM CDT

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The possibility of the 'Democrats' under... (0.00 / 0)

...Hillary and her corporatist friends blowing their whole foot off is a very real one.

But...

She hasn't won yet and I further submit that if she does and she does not track left she will meet the same fate Bush has; irrelevancy in a very short time.

Blacks and Latinos are, in my experience, far more sensitive to and harder to manipulate than 'Angry White People'. Comes with always getting the short end of the stick, I believe.

You might get stuck with that short end but you will never believe it's anybody other than the ruling white folks who stuck you with it.

And...

Since Blacks and Latinos are a far larger percentage of the voters they can no longer be ignored or marginalized very easily.

Combine this with the growing financial pain the middle class is suffering and the corporatist pirates who are looting the Treasury and the economy are living on borrowed time.

Peace, Health and Prosperity for Everyone.

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by: ACitizen @ Sun Sep 16, 2007 at 22:39:52 PM CDT

Richardson: Gradual drawdown in Iraq useless (0.00 / 0)

Richardson has been taking the message that we must bring our troop home now - all of our troops - if we wish to end the war to voters in Iowa:

http://desmoinesregi...

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by: Stephen Cassidy @ Sun Sep 16, 2007 at 23:07:01 PM CDT

Bush Expands the War (0.00 / 0)

No, it's not the war in Iraq or Iran. It is the "narcoterrorism" war that's going on around the world, including Central and South America. With the designation of $15 billion for Blackwater and other military contractors, the drug war has quietly expanded from a militarized policing effort to a full scale military effort. Probably one ancillary and covert goal is reverse the spread of socialist regimes in Latin America for the benefit of "U.S. interests" especially oil corporations.

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by: T Maysle @ Mon Sep 17, 2007 at 08:14:00 AM CDT