The balance of the post can be read by clicking 'Click here to read more' below.
Where did it go? Why did a planned rally in LA draw so few people in LA last week that AP even counted journos and organizers in its guesstimate of crowd size? Perhaps the most amusing paragraph within the article was this:
An Associated Press review this week of voter registration figures from Chicago, Denver, Houston, Atlanta, Los Angeles and other major urban areas that saw large rallies showed no sign of a historic new voter boom that could sway elections.There's no delusion quite like self-delusion.
Just another Emily Litella moment for the Democrats, I suppose. A bit like the "Republican Culture of Corruption" which has engendered the hoped for effect of a tight Senate race in Montana and the forced retirement of a Congressman in a safe district in Ohio but has also left Congressman William Jefferson (and possibly the Sanchez sisters) wondering whether they will get a sentence for receiving a bribe as stiff as Vernon Jackson received for offering one. Democratic Congressman Mollohan will retain his House seat but is unlikely to regain his seat on the House Ethics Committee - which is just as well, considering that the Department of Justice is casting a cold eye on some of his rather lucrative associations with 'foundations'. Perhaps the same officals at Justice are involved in the recently announced investigation of the newly minted and immediately tarnished Senator Menendez of New Jersey? Will he turn out to be as cheap a crook as Torricelli? Will Lautenberg have to be called upon to hold both of New Jersey's Senate seats due to the unavailability of any other New Jersey Democrat without similiar problems?
Why has the New York Times become so tepid in its support of nutrooter Ted Lamont and his bid to unseat Joe Lieberman? In fact, why is the entire Democratic establishment sprinting from association with the nutroots? I thought they were the wave of the [Democratic] future? Perhaps it has something to do with the apparent buyer remorse that the Soros/Bing/Lewis consortium seems to be suffering over their purchase of the Democratic Party.
You can't really blame them, how would you feel if you opened the poke and found ten skunks rather than the nice healthy young pig you thought you were buying?
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I still hear a lot of paleos saying they won't vote.
Of course they could just be blowing off.
If it were deemed a success as a wedge issue the Dems would still be pushing it. Gasbags in blog comments won't be the determinant factor this year. In fact, I don't believe there is a determinant factor this year.
FA - Did you click 'Read More'? It works for me.
Skook,
I don't know about natural but I do know that Hispanics meld right in over the standard three generation immigrant pattern. The qualities you mention used to be common to a lot of Dems. Who are now Republicans or Independents.
Rick:
I am not as concerned about the hispanics as I am the Buchanan wing of the party, they don't show any inclination of viewing anything and everything short of mass roundups as betrayal.
But they seem to have lost some steam since the Utah election. In truth I think Americans want to see border security and some kind of guest worker program, but they aren't ready to go too far either way.
Terrye,
There is another test on Tuesday down on the border in the AZ-08 primary. I don't think Tancredo's candidate will win.
FA,
I wish Tradesports had a bet on "Will '06 be the lowest turnout in US history?" The presse ancienne has succeeded in turning more people off from politics than I would have believed possible two years ago. I'm actually wondering if betting on Rep pickups in the House wouldn't be smarter than the hold bet.
Rick, this post was a pleasant surprise! ;-)
Skook,
I read a piece that I can't find right now about blacks in MO being fed up with the Dems and holding their noses and voting for Talent - apparently he has delivered and the Dems can't. The people interviewed were saying that they were tired of seeing Dem operatives for two months every two years and being ignored the rest of the time. Slow learners.
MHA - It's a pleasure to be back.
Well, is there any truth to some of the polling which indicates that among registered voters, the races are close, but among likely voters the Dems have quite an edge?
That would indicate the Reps aren't fired enough to cast a ballot but many Dems are.
I just don't feel as complacent about it as many of you.
Syl,
It isn't actually complacency. I've spent a number of hours poring over district voting patterns and FA's absolutely true contention regarding the degree of efficiency involved in gerrymandering districts makes potential shifts an enormous uphill battle. I'll be writing about Iowa on Wednesday and clarify the details within the piece but the upshot is no change. Iowa is getting some spending from both parties but it's only because of the '08 caucuses.
There are a handful of districts actually in play - but just a handful.
Rick
Of course, I defer to you. And those polls were taken before the actual campaign season started anyway.
rick—
I'll be writing about Iowa on Wednesday...
Wednesday then.
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