Letters to the Editor
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Are the people of Louisiana
. . .wising up?
I would think any state affected by Katrina would think twice about voting Republican, but then again, that may be too much to hope for.
I'm being cautious, and seven years of Dubya have made me cynical. But who knows? Could the people of the U.S. be wising up?
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"A vote for Don Cazayoux is a vote for Barack Obama"
Or, its a vote for the next President of the United States.
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Like I've been saying all along..
..Obama's got coattails. Big ass coattails. Even if he doesn't win the general, he will give the Dems a near veto-proof majority in Congress. Hillary, even if she won, would probably lose one, if not both, houses which doesn't bode well for any meaningful progress.
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Why Did Koppelman Not Address This Point?
From the same Journal article:
"The NRCC said that linking Mr. Cazayoux with Sen. Obama and Rep. Pelosi was effective because Mr. Cazayoux had a wide lead in polls heading into the race. A SurveyUSA poll commissioned by Roll Call newspaper favored Mr. Cazayoux to win by nine points; he won 49% to 46%."
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The Republiks' Strategery
might have worked if they'd linked Cazayoux to Hillary.
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"Not-so-secret" weapon.
Actually the GOP's not-so-secret weapon is Tim Russert, Chris Mathews and the rest of the "independent" media who spend their days and nights shilling for the Republican Party by echoing White house/FoxNews talking points.
They obviously failed to live up to expectations in Louisiana, which means Tim and Chris will just have to pound on Hillary and Barak a lot harder in the future. All in the name of "even handedness", of course.
"Care for another sprinkle-covered donut, John?"
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@Uncle Monty
How dare you point out actual facts! This is, after all, Salon.com, where everyone lives in a paranoid haze and desperately grasps at any straw that might mean good news.
I mean, they fell for the Obama bullshit express. How dare you throw cold water in their faces?
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Interesting race
Cazayoux's victory occurred in my district. He was the most conservative of the several Democratic contenders for the nomination, and beat out a black fellow legislator in the second round of our Byzantine run-off system. So his victory actually follows the pattern of several Democratic seat pick-ups in the 2006 election.
The sixth district is demographically complex--it was gerrymandered originally to dilute the large African-American vote therein, and as long as all whites vote Republican in a bloc, it is a reliably GOP district. Cazayoux won for at least four reasons:
(1) The most obvious is that he's a Democrat in a year that even Louisianians are growing weary of Republicans. The number of SUVs and pickups with "W" stickers on them is still large down here, but not as large as it was two or three years ago.
(2) Cazayoux, by running to the right, coopted the usual GOP subtext and wedge issues for himself. (I received a robo-call from former Sen. John Breaux, urging me to vote for Cazayoux because of his "conservative, Louisiana values." I voted for him anyway.)
(3) Cazayoux's opponent is sort of a local laughingstock, a multiply-failed businessman named Woody Jenkins who publishes a segregationist rag in which he repeatedly urges the secession of "South," i.e. white, Baton Rouge from "North," i.e. black, Baton Rouge. Even white conservative voters may feel uneasy with his apartheid fantasies, although it's his shady business dealings and fiscal ineptitude that really sealed the deal.
(4) A big maybe:
Race matters in America, and will always matter. Even if it stops mattering in the rest of the U.S., it will continue to matter in the deep south. But since 2001, since Katrina, since Iraq, it has become possible for economics and ethics to trump race, and for the use of race to keep black and white working people at odds with one another to come to an end, at least provisionally.
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It's All Perspective
How dare you point out actual facts! This is, after all, Salon.com, where everyone lives in a paranoid haze and desperately grasps at any straw that might mean good news.
I mean, they fell for the Obama bullshit express. How dare you throw cold water in their faces?
-- T. Suarez
Sad. Salon does a string of anti-obama stories and then one that has a positive spin to it -- that the GOP tried a tie Obama to the candidate strategy and failed -- and this is evidence of its pro-Obama leanings. Give me a break T. Suarez, if that is your real fake name. Either that or take a stroll through the archives. You might be satisfied that your anti-Obama leanings have found a home outside of a GOP blog.
And as for the substance, that the GOP is crowing that they were able to close the gap? SFW? They can spin it all they want, but they still LOST the race and the seat.
And a tip of the cap to the good folks in Looziana for not letting bullshit cloud their judgment.
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@Uncle Monty
Point well made, Uncle Monty. It seems pretty clear linking him to Pelosi and Obama had a significant effect. But it wasn't effective enough to make him lose. And outside the reddest of Congressional districts, the tactic could backfire. I don't think people who are genuine independents, who might vote for either party, regard Pelosi and Obama as demons.
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What a choice!
Vote for the party that screws up everything they touch or vote for the party that does absolutely nothing.
They went for the party that does nothing.
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The GOP secret weapon is to do nothing
And wait for the Democrats to eat each other.
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Silly repugs!
If they'd used whatshername instead of Obama as the scary lib, the gooper would have cruised to victory.
And no, Obama does not have to use this victory as an argument to super delegates. They've known all along that whatshername at the top of the ticket meant their doom.
Shit, even here in Kentucky, where whatshername leads Obama in the polls by 30 points, down-ticket dems know their only hope in November is Obama as the nominee.
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Not exactly on topic...but I was so pissed I have to complain
Did anyone catch the Today show this morning. I support Obama but this was sooo unnecessary. They had Hillary and Obama on with Hillary tring to put forth talking points while Meridith Viera grilled her on the foolishness of the reduce-the-gas-tax proposal.Spent the whole time talking about issues Next up Matt Lauer and Obama..first question from Matt quoting that esteemed non biased newsperson Charles Krauthammer.... so about Jerimiah Wright why didn't you denounce him earlier..give me a break Why the MSM can not be rlied on to give us NEWS