Posted on 12/12/2014 11:58:58 AM PST by Seizethecarp
Democrats can win in Virginia and North Carolina, and at least be competitive in Georgia, Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, and West Virginia. The problem is turnout. November’s election saw the worst turnout since 1942, when millions of Americans were overseas fighting in the Second World War.
The typical nonvoter, then, is poor and favors Democrats. So why aren’t they showing up?
While nonvoters are skeptical of immigration and gay rights, social issues don’t fire them up, otherwise they’d be voting Republican. That’s why Democrats don’t have to move right on God, guns, or abortion. They need to speak to issues that nonvoters care about.
In Appalachia, the biggest threat to health and safety isn’t gun violence, climate change, or a War on Women; it’s prescription drugs. West Virginia has the highest drug overdose rate in America. More people die overdosing on OxyContin, Vicodin, or Xanax in West Virginia than die in car accidents.
Somewhere along the way, the party of Andrew Jackson, William Jennings Bryan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Robert F. Kennedy became a defender of the banks and the pharmaceutical companies, comfortable among the rich, and ashamed of the working class. And that’s when Democrats lost the South.
There’s a reason why Senator Elizabeth Warren was invited down from Massachusetts to campaign in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Georgia. She knows whose side Democrats are supposed to be on. The question is, does Hillary?
(Excerpt) Read more at newrepublic.com ...
“That article never got to the point - stating how the Democrats can win the South.”
Somewhere in the article the idea is to get a pile of persons to turnout who support Democrat crap in the polling but don’t show up at the polls!
“A real populist can wreck havoc on both parties, probably splitting the R vote.”
One of the books that helped me really understand why I was conservative was written back in 1983 by Richard Viguerie, one of the leaders of the Conservative Right at the time.
He wrote “The Establishment vs The People: is a New Populist Revolt on The Way?”.
You can get the book for cheap on Amazon or perhaps it’s available at your local library. Som e of his talking points are a bit dated (considering the book was written 30 years ago) but all in all, the main gist of the message remains true.
The GOP could do quite well electorally if we’d heed Viguerie’s message.
Better turnout from those who agree with you - the goal of every political victory strategy ever devised.
He made his unremarkable goal clear, it was the plan he never got around to. But clearly it involves taking some stuff from people who vote elsewhere and giving it to the people he wants to vote the way he likes.
Where did they get the props from?
“What difference does it make”
Yeah, the demoncraps got taken over by the marxist-alinsky-organizers.
>> While nonvoters are skeptical of immigration and gay rights, social issues don’t fire them up, otherwise they’d be voting Republican. <<
Converse logic would say that liberal economic issues don’t fire them up, otherwise they’d be voting Democratic.
Also do they think that prescription drugs are too expensive and too hard to get, or too cheap and too easy to get? They seem to be implying both.
*Conservatives need not apply.
Pictures like that won’t help her; she looks a bit frail and unhealthy.
Import central Americans, off shore factories and close down coal mines. What could go wrong?
New Republic will soon go the way of Newsweek.
Buh bye,
That’s why they’ll have a black VP candidate.
And the comm. organizers will be “wink-winking” about her health...
Yes of course Democrats will be competitive in West Virginia, now sit down and stay still so the staff can tie your shoes.
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