Playbook for a Democratic Comeback (Liberal insanity handbook)

National Journal ^ | 1/4/17 | Kraushhar

[pabianice]

The seeds of Demo­crat­ic re­new­al can be found in the af­flu­ent neigh­bor­hoods of At­lanta and its north­ern sub­urbs, where a quiet protest against Don­ald Trump’s Re­pub­lic­an Party took place on Elec­tion Day. The di­verse, mod­er­ate-minded con­stitu­ents of Health and Hu­man Ser­vices Sec­ret­ary de­sign­ee Tom Price took a markedly dif­fer­ent view of Trump than work­ing-class white voters in the Rust Belt. Mitt Rom­ney car­ried this dis­trict with 61 per­cent of the vote in 2012—a seat that The Al­man­ac of Amer­ic­an Polit­ics dubbed a “safe Re­pub­lic­an dis­trict”—but Trump eked out just a 1-point win over Hil­lary Clin­ton in 2016.

Clin­ton car­ried sub­urb­an At­lanta’s Cobb County by 3 points, a dra­mat­ic 15-point swing from Mitt Rom­ney’s re­sound­ing double-di­git vic­tory in the county four years earli­er. Among the most-af­flu­ent pre­cincts in Fulton County, Clin­ton won by 3 points. Clin­ton even car­ried white voters in the At­lanta met­ro­pol­it­an area by a 1-point mar­gin, a stun­ning turn­around in a state that has his­tor­ic­ally been deeply po­lar­ized along ra­cial lines.

The res­ults from the At­lanta sub­urbs of­fer Demo­crats a play­book for how to com­pete in the fu­ture—win over so­cially lib­er­al, fisc­ally con­ser­vat­ive voters who tra­di­tion­ally lined up with Re­pub­lic­ans. This would pair the di­verse Obama co­ali­tion with voters who have favored free mar­kets and a tough-minded for­eign policy. It would be a throw­back to the cent­rist policies of Bill Clin­ton, along with a full-throated em­brace of a di­ver­si­fy­ing Amer­ica. It would con­cede some of the white work­ing-class gains to Trump, while mak­ing an ag­gress­ive push to bring col­lege-edu­cated sub­urb­an­ites in­to the Demo­crat­ic fold.

[poconopundit]

The most popular radio show in Atlanta for the last 24 months is Herman Cain on WSB.  And I'll bet Herman is gonna keep Georgia in the "R" column for years to come.

Cain has the 9-to-12 morning gig.  Fabulous. He mixes it up with his "News nuggets" commentary, business/financial advice, an occasional guest, and some joking around with show staff.  Very intelligent talk, clear discussions, and some folksy Southern charm too.

The last 30 minutes each day he does "Rapid Fire" one-minute discussions with listeners: "Hello Donna, you've got a minute on Rapid Fire, what's on your mind?" and a quick Q&A discussion follows, and he moves onto the next person.  Very effective.  And the callers really feel like they are contributors to the show.

Herman had a witty one today.  The discussion was on ObamaCare. He said,

"Yesterday in Congress, Schumer and the Democrats were talking about 'Make America Sick Again' -- what they say is gonna happen if we dump ObamaCare.  But the American people are tired of having the federal government dictate their mandates, so we're looking to repeal and replace it with something much better.:

"And you know what the initials of 'Make America Sick Again' spell?  It's M..A..S..A, MASA.  And that slogan shows what the real agenda of the Democrats is: they want the federal gobberment to be the MASA [master] over your health care."

Keep it up, Herman!

[sergeantdave]

Maybe the rat atheists can show faked solidarity with their mooslem allies by sacrificing goats at the next convention.

[V K Lee]

LOL!
MASA
They can’t seem to run from it no matter how they try.
These ‘folks’ are just so full of themselves they can barely walk.
Nice to hear the Herman Cain continues to shake things up.

[NativeSon]

Now, you're on the trolley. Clinton won the area because the voters are cool, hip, educated and just better than you.

Previously, they were horrible racists that dropped out of grade school, worked as guards at Dachau and supported Romney.

[Bitsy]

Me too. YES!

[pabianice]

Who can forget that they had no American Flags the first night of the Dem Convention last year?