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  1. roc scssrs:

    Yes, I though that was pretty funny, too.

    But I actually think that when he was working on Project Vote he was an affable workaholic—at least, for that project. I think he was happy—highly motivated in a project that was an excellent fit for his interests and his skills, and was going very well, and he was receiving enormous kudos for it. It must have been a very heady experience for such a young man, a great boost to the ego, and highly satisfying in its results.

  2. I hope your readers take a minute to watch the Elbert Guillory anti-Mary Landrieu ad that you linked to in your last sentence, Neo. Yes, Republicans need more hard-hitting, powerful ads like that one.

  3. Talked to a guy involved in getting out the vote in black neighborhoods. I referred to a couple of precincts in Philly which had 110% turnout. His comment was that he had no idea who was voting, since it was hell getting the folks to…you know…actually vote.

  4. “…..agitating……”
    The Republicans dropped the ball in 2008 when they allowed O to use the term “community organizer” instead of the more accurate description “community agitator”. Organizer sounds so much more wholesome and moderate than the more accurate divisive agitator.

  5. Out today and, as well, on Drudge, is the story about how many in the audience–overwhelmingly black in Maryland’s Prince Georges county, and one would think practically every one of them an Obama supporter–started leaving as soon as Obama started to speak at reportedly the first campaign rally he has made an appearance at in 2014.

    There is even a picture in the article, reported by the UK’s Daily Mail (I’m pretty sure you ain’t gonna see any MSM reportage), which, according to its caption, shows a white campaign worker attempting to persuade those leaving to stay (see http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2799603/crowds-walk-obama-speech-rare-campaign-trail-appearance.html#ixzz3Ghx6l1a6) .

    So, are even some black supporters just finally turned off?

  6. Wolla Dalbo:

    It would have been interesting to try to interview the leavers and see why they left. Were they bored? Angry? It certainly doesn’t seem they are about to vote Republican, though, since they were at a rally for a Democrat.

  7. Guillory is priceless. The gop has done next to nothing to speak to the inherent conservatism of many within the black religious communities across the nation. If Walker wins reelection in Wisconsin I would welcome a Walker-Carson ticket in 2016, as the more I learn about Carson, the more I admire him. Carson’s greatest attributes are his obvious intelligence, his sincerity, and his appeal as an outsider to politics as usual. And I doubt the attacks against Herman Cain would work on Carson

  8. Jefferson Davis was a democrat and the democrats were pro slavery. They were the party of the KKK and Jim Crow laws. Seeing how the blacks vote for democrats almost makes me believe in Karl Marx’s theory of false consciousness.

  9. That Elbert Guillory video that neo linked to, “Mary Landrieu is not Helping Blacks “… WOW!

  10. Maybe Louisiana State Senator Guillory should run for Congress.

    Unfortunately, though, being a congressman is a very heady thing, and it’s easy to get corrupted, until as Guillory, quoting Thomas Sowell, points out in his very powerful anti-Landreiu commercial, you are just one of the “politicians”–“politicians (who) are not trying to solve your problems, they’re trying to solve their problems, of which getting elected and then reelected are number one and number two.”

    The pay, the perks, the two thousand dollar suits and expensive jewelry, the glittering parties, the power and adulation, all of the people trying to butter you up and giving you things to get your influence on their side, the bowing and scraping just overwhelm people. People who may have come to Washington with good intentions and a reformist agenda but, in many cases, all that just gets overwhelmed and corrupted, as the outer shell remains but what was inside just withers away.

    As I think I have written here before, in the first few congresses members were indeed “citizen legislators,” making the often long, arduous, uncomfortable, and sometimes dangerous trip from where they worked as farmers, lawyers, and businessmen to take up residence in crowded, hot, and uncomfortable boardinghouses in a Washington built on a just drained swamp where yellow fever was endemic (its no accident that the Congress was the first major instituiton in the U.S. to get air conditioning); they just wanted to get the minimum necessary work done, and then head back to their families and their real jobs, their work as legislators paid for at the glorious rate of $1.50 per day.

    But, several congresses later, as congressmen started to set up homes so that they could stay in Washington much longer, that was the beginning of the end, as “professional politicians”–able to politic and meddle all year long–started to emerge.

  11. The Republicans have probably maxed out on their ability to register “conservative” voters and get them to the polls, unless they start picking them up at their houses and busing them there.

    Even then they are unlikely to gain much.

    What is called the evangelical vote, is, it seems to me, divided between conservative Christians who understand politics and the principle of self-government, and members of sects who, rather like Libertarians, take a perverse pleasure in making futile and ultimately self-destructive gestures for the sake of the emotional fulfillment they derive from it.

  12. Obama and Dems have been pursuing a strategy of turning out the partisan, even rabidly-partisan voters instead of “going for the middle.”
    They have determined, correctly, that it is easier to motivate the fringes to turn our than the wishy-washy middle.

    Republicans won’t pursue this strategy, because their base is more conservative than they are, and would upset the corrupt apple cart.

    As things stand, I expect Republicans to retake the Senate, then largely sit on their hands for two years. They are worthless, most of them, but the base either doesn’t realize it or are too risk-averse.

  13. I stated some time ago that Romney or other election problems weren’t due to Republicans refusing to vote. It was due to all the dead Democrats in cities coming out.

  14. Ymarsakar:

    I stated some time ago that Romney or other election problems weren’t due to Republicans refusing to vote. It was due to all the dead Democrats in cities coming out.

    Is it coincidence, do you suppose, that fiction about the “zombie apocalypse” is all the rage these days?

  15. Hmm. Come to think of it, this might be a nice counterpoint to the idiotic “Republicans for Voldemort” bumper stickers a while back. How about a bumper sticker reading “Zombies vote Democrat”?

    (For those with especially long memories, a photo of Bob Hope might be appropriate…)

  16. Daniel, that’s certainly one feasible interpretation of the Z Apoc. Although there are plenty of others.

  17. For some reason, people started going partial or full “survivalist” around 2008. Maybe it was 9/11, maybe it was the Fort Hood shootings, maybe it was everything combined under Hussein O’s Dark Sun.

    The Hunger Games heroine shooting a bow, probably incited popular views. There were already zombie katana slayers on the net, as hobbyists. It’s pretty easy to combine these disparate groups if the threat is real or feasible.

  18. The evangelicas, or rather the missionaries in the US that are true believers like 7th Day Adventists or Jehovah’s Witnesses or perhaps the Mormon Missionaries, actually don’t believe government can solve corruption. Only God’s Kingdom can.

    To the Leftist alliance and their death cult priests, their Government Power is equal to God’s Kingdom.

    While true believers of certain Christian religions disagree, it doesn’t mean they will vote Republican to “fix” problems…

  19. Re the black walkout at the rally. FWIW Monday’s WaPo article on the event never mentioned the walkout. Instead focused on the crowd’s enthusiasm. Brown is in a tight race and the Dems are clearly worried.

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