Are you stupid? A candidate loses the total vote so you dismiss his sucessful strategy to double the GOP black vote and avoid high black turnout?
How do I know that targeted outreach to blacks helped Jim Talent by convincing blacks to stay home. And is that what we want from outreach anyway?
Do we want the Democrats' base of support to stay home on election day? YES, HELLO! Not as good as getting them to vote for us, but it's halfway there.
Listen, I don't do this stuff for a living. What the hell do I know?
I'm just looking for a little commom sense and finding none. You think I do politics for a living? Hell, no!
"Doubled" is an insignificant statistic. If I get one black person to vote for me, and the next time I get two, I have doubled the result. Who cares? It looks like he was able to get--surprise surprise--about 1 out of 10. And he lost. So, while I don't think I am stupid, I am not moved by this example.