Democratic Caucus Chair Rahm Emanuel
It finally came to me that the Dem Team is much smarter than they use to be. Don’t think that Hillary, Barrack and John Edwards did not lock the door at a Blue Dogs meeting and say “if you can’t be with us, we understand, just don’t be against us.”
What a pretty move; like a well executed Hook and Lateral in football—a thing of beauty. And the GOP defense got caught napping. It is hard going from “baller” status to functioning as the House and Senate minority.
The GOP ended up with John Cain, which was a blessing in disguise. All they had to do was allow him to select Romney as a running mate and the Wall Street crisis would have sealed the deal for their team because Romney is a fixer (Salt Lake City Olympics) and a finance expert.
But, they picked Palin (who is a bright star) to please the base but gave up on the middle.
To the Marshall v. Goddard race in Georgia: the counter move to the Dem Pass for Marshall should have been pushing the notion that Marshall was not behind Obama to Obama supporters and that Marshall was not behind Hillary to her supporters.
But, the RNC did Goddard a disservice by not being familiar with the mindset of all of the voters. Georgia Rep. Paul Broun beat Jim Whitehead by securing a few points from Black conservatives—can you believe Whitehead has a tire company with several Black managers. I knew those guys would be appearing in an ad similar to the Obama infomercial from last night. “Jim gave me a job after high school and I worked my way up to management….thanks for believing in me.” Boom: 20% of the Black vote but it never happen.
I must admit that I did not follow the ball as a fan in the stands: the Dem Team cooked up this “ignore Obama and Hillary if you need” plan 22 months ago to protect the Dem control of the House. But the signs were there: the CBC would be eating Marshall up if he was really dissing Hillary and Obama.
The whole thing must have been orchestrated by one mastermind: Congressman Rahm Emanuel. As chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and then Democratic Caucus chair, this guy is the Vince Lombardi of politics. He ushered his delegation mate into the White House and served up a friendly congress.
Project Logic Ga 
This article has some interesting numbers but what I can understand is why the GOP candidates did not go after Black votes. People who know Black southern voters know we are moderate; so, the Washington handlers of these campaigns don’t know that 10-30% of the Black vote could go to a candidate with a personal relationship with the AA community.
By the way, yesterday I wrote this about Rahm Emanuel and this morning the talk is that Obama wants him for White House Chief of Staff…..Listen to me…Listen to me.
Black voters may lead Democratic wave
An Obama-propelled increase in African-American turnout, already apparent in early voting, may put more Democrats in Congress.
By Alex Koppelman
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/10/30/black_vote/print.html
I think you have some of the time frames wrong here. It started in 2006 when they won the House from the GOP, the DNC recruited a bunch of conservative Democrats to replace GOP seats in key districts.
They all became Blue Dogs. It was their understanding that on key party votes, they would be needed – but otherwise they could vote how they liked. This is just a continuation of that, they are just giving them a pass on Obama now instead.
One would think that the Dems would have learned their lesson after the ole “boll weavils” revolted and slowly turned red, remember Senator Alex Shelby use to be a Democrat – now he’s a Republican. What happens when the GOP finds it’s way again?
Ron: Rahm is the leader to design everything back in 2006; told Pelsoi that if she wanted to be speaker, give the Blue Dogs some room to be conservative and moderate. And it worked.
The White southern conservatives did not join the GOP until the 90s because they were still mad at Lincoln and the GOP about the end of slavery. I think the “southern strategy” of Goldwater started the move into the GOP.
I hope that the GOP returns to their core believes of less government, spending control and pro-business..ending the method of using social conservatism to rally the masses while the big boys paid in corporation America. We will see.
yes, I know Rahm engineered it back in 2006; that is why I said you just had the time frame wrong =)
The thing I have always found interesting, is how Democrats from the South would get elected by saying one thing then doing another when they go to Washington.
I digress, you are right. The GOP has to return back to the Goldwater/Taft style of conservatism, or die a slow painful death.
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