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Southern Democrats Urge a Return to Party Basics (more Taxes)
Real Clear Politics ^ | November 28,2014 | By Bill Barrow

Posted on 11/29/2014 6:12:52 AM PST by Hojczyk

Southern Democrats are joining others in the party who say that a return to advocating to lift people out of economic hardship and emphasizing spending on education and public works will re-energize black voters and attract whites as well.

"It's time to draw a line in the sand and not surrender our brand," Rickey Cole, the party chairman in Mississippi, said. He believes candidates have distanced themselves from the past half-century of Democratic principles.

"We don't need a New Coke formula," Cole said. "The problem is we've been out there trying to peddle Tab and RC Cola."

Cole and other Southern Democrats acknowledge divisions with prominent populists such as Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is expected to run for president in 2016, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Yet they see merit in pushing stronger voting rights laws, tighter bank regulation, labor-friendly policies such as a higher minimum wage and other familiar party themes.

Democratic politics have become a tough sell in the conservative South. A major challenge in the region is finding candidates who can win high-profile races now that Republicans, who scored well in midterm elections earlier this month, dominate the leadership in state legislatures and across statewide offices.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dncstrategy; southerndems
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To: VOR78

Lol!


21 posted on 11/29/2014 7:03:41 AM PST by BlackAdderess
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To: Hojczyk

Imagine that—politicians using the same old theories that never work: go deeper into debt to pay for unnecessary public works jobs, and increase “education” spending (e.g. dump money into new school construction that just disrupts the classroom).

When these clowns come up with practical ideas, maybe confidence will return to America. Without confidence in the future, people will not invest or expand their business.


22 posted on 11/29/2014 7:11:32 AM PST by g-ranch
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To: DoodleDawg
So why do Democrats condemn the thousands of jobs that would be created by the Keystone pipeline by saying that they're just temporary construction jobs and will be gone once the pipeline is done while at the same time talking about spending billions on rebuilding the infrastructure? Aren't those also construction jobs that will be gone once the road or the bridge or the building is done?

That is thinking logically dearest DoodleDawg.

Stop it!

They have no place for that.

Whatever advances their cause is what is important. It doesn't matter if it's hypocritical or even makes sense.

Shoot in Communist Poland, they had these things called Pewex stores. That were in effect, state run Capitalist Enterprise basic service and commodity outlets. The stores were subservient to Basic Market principles, when Communism was suppose to do away with such things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pewex

23 posted on 11/29/2014 7:22:42 AM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: VOR78

You know, this may be more interesting than meets the eye. I’d love to see a breakdown, if one exists, as to how many white southerners voted as opposed to whites in other regions. I say white southerners, because it’s a known fact that the majority of blacks in any region vote for the ‘rats. But OTOH, it might be interesting to see how blacks in the South voted as opposed to blacks in other regions, in this one election, considering some of the crazy campaigning that happened. I don’t think for a minute that any huge number of blacks anywhere, including in the South, voted for Republicans, but I wonder if enough in the South did so, to be noticeable to ‘rats, which relies on their vote, as one of the members of their coalition of the disaffected. I seem to recall that more Hispanics voted Republican in this election than usual, though not anything close to a majority.


24 posted on 11/29/2014 8:16:18 AM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: g-ranch

They won’t get anywhere as long as they wage war to kill the middle class, which still consists mostly of whites in the private sector, such as it is under CommieBama. And that’s on just a fiscal issue, which is the angle they would most likely use. I don’t think that they’ll ever budge on social issues, as those are part of their reason for existence.


25 posted on 11/29/2014 8:19:57 AM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Hojczyk

Hmm. The party basics. Stalin style communism or Mao style communism. Yeah that’ll work.


26 posted on 11/29/2014 8:26:09 AM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Hojczyk

They’re lied.

Instead of coming clean, they’re figuring out how to lie better.

People have caught onto them, that’s their problem.

New lipstick on the pig won’t help; its still the same pig.

In a nutshell, that’s the Democrats’ problem for the future.


27 posted on 11/29/2014 8:54:04 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Liz

The problem for dim’s is that the majority of the people know they say populism/conservatism and do marxism.


28 posted on 11/29/2014 9:03:53 AM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Hojczyk

More KKK enrollments?.


29 posted on 11/29/2014 9:04:36 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: fieldmarshaldj
"We don't need a New Coke formula," Cole said. "The problem is we've been out there trying to peddle Tab and RC Cola."


30 posted on 11/29/2014 9:44:59 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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