Posted on 11/29/2014 6:55:02 AM PST by Din Maker
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.
Arkansas Democrats lost an open governor's seat and two-term Sen. Mark Pryor. Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu led an eight-candidate primary but faces steep odds in a Dec. 6 runoff. Democrats' closest statewide loss in the South was North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan's 1.7 percentage point margin of defeat.
Exit polling suggests Democrats did not get the black turnout they needed and lost badly among whites. Nunn and Carter got fewer than 1 in 4 white votes, while Pryor took 31 percent and Landrieu 18 percent.
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I’ve got an even better idea for the ‘RATS. They need to “rebrand” themselves and “return” to the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Forget all that phony, baloney “phone and pen” BS. That’s not America. That’s fascism.
entitlements and welfare
...and emphasizing spending on education and public works...
Crank up the Dem money machine for the unions by looting the treasury
...will re-energize black voters and attract whites as well.
'Cause we know that gov-mint freebies will keep them on the plantation.
Same old, same old.
But the young hipsters running Yahoo News don’t know that......
I don’t see much difference between the Left Coast and Northeast Democrats and the Southern ones in what they want to push down our throats. The difference is that Southern voters, to their credit, have barfed up all over these Southern Democrats and those Southern Democrats want someone to pay the dry cleaning bill.
I am not a conservative who thinks that Democrats are evil—at least not traditional old school Democrats -— not the pseudo-Communists we have running the party now. Democrats at one time spoke for the working class—then the Unions—now every far left group who hates America. Some Democrats had somne good ideas—Once. Now they are bankrupt and can only rule by force (as in Obamacare) and Tyranical order (as in illegalcare). The GOP and the American people need to cut this cancer out of the republic. there is a place for Democrats—No place for Marxists-Maoists in the USA.
Exactly. Same old,same old rat answer to everything-more gibmes funded by the long-suffering middle class, while attempting to get us to ignore their leftist social policy. Conservatives aren’t part of the Free Sh*t Army, we are forced to fund it.
Network in the breakfast area at the hotel had talking heads gushing that 2016’s election will see more young voters (as well as women, minorities, and voters in general) turn up at the polls than in 2014.
Low information voters can swing elections.
The sort who thought Republicans held the House and Senate in 2007-2008.
They had bad ideas at least as far back as Wilson and his “temporary” income tax to fund WWI. FDR could put some commies to shame with his redistributionist policies.
Democrat party is for lawlessness with illegal immigration, voter corruption, wealth transfer payments (food stamps, low income assistance, O-care) to their constituents, and infringement of our constitutional rights to keep them in power.
So which of those are they going to give up?
I wish we could take that much credit, but in my state, one often touted as being distilled conservatism, Cochran was re-elected. Of course a lot of skull-duggerywas involved in it, but not enough that conservatives couldn’t have denied Cochran re-election. Of course that needed to be done in the primary.
Hey, ‘RATS, I hear Jonathan Gruber is looking for some extra work. Maybe he can help get your message across.
Bring back Bull Conner, Gov. George Wallace, the KKK and the corpse of senator sheets byrd and the true demonRATS of the past will ride again.
Which is one reason why I think that universal adult citizen suffrage isn’t necessarily a good idea. People should have to know what they’re wanting to force other people to live by, support with their taxes, etc. And people who are considered “children” up to age 26 for purposes of health insurance, may not generally be the most astute. Nor people who spend at least 4 years being indoctrinated by the left in “higher education”.
I agree with you - but better Cochran than any Dem.
A future problem with the Cochran victory is that when he retires, which could easily happen in 2015, Haley Barbour will get to choose his replacement rather than the people of Mississippi.
You are what you is and you is what you am.
You’d have better luck changing cow into a ham.
ONLY A DEMOCRAT could think removing guns from decent people.. to fight the chaos of Thuggs with Guns would be logical..
Disarm the decent to protect them from thuggs.. who will always have guns..
Are democrats morons?...
Which is what (Barbour’s hand-picked successor for Cochran) was behind all the skullduggery, more than any ideological opposition to the Tea Party here. But they went down that road, of using opposition to the Tea Party and true conservatives for their own purposes, and I hope they die by the sword they chose to use (and I don’t mean by a ‘rat win either, that would be a loss for everyone).
But, but, how long is “temporary” when measured against “eternity?” :)
Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV)
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