Posted on 11/02/2006 2:36:41 PM PST by Fudd Fan
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Winning Small
WISDOM OF THE FOUNDERS:
Majorities in Congress aren’t formed by the national zeitgeist, as Mr. Rove cheerfully points out. They are built one race at a time. And in dozens of close contests this fall, the outcome will be determined largely by one often-overlooked minority group: the mostly white and mostly conservative voters who live in America’s small towns.
Residents of rural areas make up only a fifth of the country’s population. That’s a little less than African-Americans and Hispanics combined. But unlike voters in those minority groups, small-town whites are often kingmakers in national politics.
In 2004, they voted for George W. Bush by nearly a 20-point margin. Newspapers ran headlines that baffled their urban readers: “Rural Values Proved Pivotal,” “Conservatives in Rural Ohio Big Key in Bush Victory,” and “G.O.P. Won With Accent on Rural and Traditional.”
This year, those same right-leaning small towns make up a major voting bloc in a half-dozen make-or-break Senate races, like those in Missouri, Montana, Tennessee and Virginia. They also dominate battleground House districts throughout the country, from Idaho to northern New York. If rural America embraces Republicans with the same fervor it did two years ago, Democrats will almost certainly be denied a majority in the Senate and may fall short in the House.
In part, the electoral importance of small towns reflects a profound rural bias hardwired into our political system. The Constitution grants two Senate seats to each state regardless of its population. As a consequence, a majority of senators are elected by voters in 26 sparsely settled states that together contain less than 18 percent of the country’s population.
Mr. Mann's own book on rural America suggests why the GOP will never lose the filibuster electorally.
http://www.brothersjudd.com/blog/archives/2006/11/wisdom_of_the_f.html
PURITY VS. ELECTABILITY:
Abandoning the See-Saw of Centrism (Sally Kohn, November 2, 2006, AlterNet)
If you listen closely this election season, you can hear the sound of Democratic candidates scraping their bottoms in a hasty rush toward the center. But the reasoning is unclear. In a political climate where once-preposterous, archconservative ideas are now the status quo, shifting the political center of balance to the middle would only aid that Right-wing tilt. As the center of politics is masqueraded as the new left, the right becomes the new center.
If Democrats seem generally allergic to articulating moral convictions and standing up for what they believe, election season exacerbates this condition.
http://www.alternet.org/story/43787/
The problem is that their convictions are amoral and they're running in a moralist society, which is why they have to keep their ideology so carefully hidden in order to be competitive.
We'll take it (I already took a FRink)
Mild mannered.....LOL!
Lets all move to Massachusetts and kick Teddy, Lurch, and Bawney out of office.
Well, maybe that is too drastic.
How do they mine the names we are supposed to call?
One for libs....one for mental patients! ;^)
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