Project Logic Ga

Trump can’t win said the political establishment.  Obama should quietly wait his turn in the Senate said the other establishment.  Bernie Sanders is too disheveled to appeal to young voters.  Clearly this writer isn’t crazy about the so-called establishment; you have blue crabs in a barrel, white crabs, black crabs, red crabs, and brown crabs.

Why are elite groups behind the scenes telling candidates they should or shouldn’t run for office almost a year before filing and nearly a year and a half before the general elections?

Traditionally, candidates would mull over a possible campaign and make a decision with family after thanksgiving dinner.  I say these possible candidates should take it to the people between now and that holiday.  If you really have a message and a path to victory, your vibe will resonate with real people and the necessary fire will be obvious.

In Georgia, three questions need to be answered by candidates for high state office or congress on the Democrat side:

1. Can you produce better turnout from the base than Obama and Hillary?
2. Can you expand the base with unregistered citizens?
3. Can you pull a percentage (say 15%) of working class Whites with an innovative kitchen table platform?

Whoa, that’s a Herculean task that will require divine intervention.  With all due respect to current officeholders and the establishment elite, candidates should test the waters in every section of Georgia to discover if they have the right stuff.

On the presidential level, Ross Perot, Ralph Nader and Bernie Sanders led noble movements that inadvertently put someone in the White House from the other side.

In the Georgia governor and lt. governor races, the eventual Democrat nominees won’t fare well in November if the primary is bloody.  This blog mentioned time and time again how the party elite selected and supported candidates who the actual voters weren’t feeling.  As the Ojay’s sang, you have got to give the people what they want.  Of course, that song was on the Back Stabbers album… I’m just saying.

It’s not rocket science; meet and greet receptions with Motown, Disco and jazz will get people into local eateries.  Candidates or their surrogates get 10 minutes to make their cases. Candidates or their surrogates get 10 minutes to make their cases.