I live in a largely Hispanic apartment complex, so I get all of the really juicy mailings from the Democratic Party and its various shadow organizations. For instance, I got all kinds of stuff from the Planned Parenthood Action Fund on the evils of Sarah Palin last year, but I digress. This is what I just got yesterday:
My wife scanned the images, and she may have altered the second one a little.
In any case, it looks likes the Democratic Party of Virginia is following the advice of those anonymous complainers within the Obama administration: Bring out the minority vote by attaching yourself as closely as possible to Obama. And keep yourself and your actual campaign in the blurry background, and in the small print at the bottom, if you don’t mind.
It’s actually pretty amusing to me to see the Democrats conflicted on how and whether to appeal to minorities this time. FF contributor Eugene Debs writes that the problem was that Deeds alienated Wilder because of his distance from Obama, and I think that’s half true. If Deeds endorsed Virginia’s one-gun-a-month law, he would have had Wilder’s endorsement, but in hilarious irony, a Democrat didn’t want to cross the gun lobby.
Ever since 2004 or so, good relations with the gun lobby has become the official badge of moderation for quite a few Democrats (and at least one New York liberal Republican in a district whose number escapes me). It has been the play to appeal to white males in particular. Considering how things are going in Virginia, is that feint getting old?
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1 Demosthenes // Oct 29, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Deeds is dead meat. However, people tend to make too much of the importance of off-year elections. I personally think they are meaningless. For example, it appears likely that Gov Corzine will win in NJ. What does that mean? Nothing. The Republican candidate is lousy. Similarly, the Republican will likely win in Virginia. That just means the Democrat, Mr. Deeds, is a lousy candidate. Nothing more. Finally, the NY election. How in Earth is that a precedent for anything, other than the Republican candidate is lousy?
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