Posted on 06/25/2014 7:19:34 AM PDT by topher
A BAD NIGHT FOR DEMOCRATS If you can divine a national trend from a runoff election in Mississippi, be our guest. But rather than pondering the motives of 3,188 Mississippi voters who made the difference in a bitter, hyper-local election, there’s a more useful consideration today. What’s at stake nationally this year is control of the U.S. Senate, and Republican chances of taking the majority went up significantly Tuesday night.
[During New York Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel’s victory speech, the stage nearly collapsed. Rangel asked “heavier people on the stage… to take safety over ego” and step down.]
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good commentary. keep it up.
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>> When Rush was for it in 2012 <<
Rush’s Operation Chaos? That was in 2008, when he was encouraging conservatives to vote for Obama in the Democratic primaries — with the thought that Obama would be weaker in the general election than Hillary. Great strategy that turned out to be!
>> Closed primaries sounds good but it will be spun as excluding minorities <<
Exactly. If Mississippi tried to chang the law, the federal courts would re-instate open primaries, especially because there’s a well-known history of the Democratic primaries’ having been closed to blacks when the Democrats controlled everything in the Magnolia State.
Except you got it backwards!
Operation Chaos was designed to get votes for Hillary, so as to equalize the race and create chaos at the Denver convention.
Thank you! Have a good one!
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