Saturday, May 27, 2006

Winning Votes In Rural Areas

Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog » 2006 election: ". . .You are probably sitting there thinking 'what the hell kind of political analysis post is this?' but bear with me. Digby hits some notes that I want to expand on the whole cultural connection issue, expanding some thoughts from Chris Bowers at MyDD on American tribalism. Living, as I do, in the heart of the 'hills and hollers' crowd, I see this sort of discussion is a necessary one at a national political level — because too often this part of the country has either been written off or taken for granted.

The Democratic party used to pretty much own this area. And they still do in local and statewide elections for the most part. But because the party infrastructure was taken for granted here for so long, and because national campaigns just took for granted that the votes would be here when they wanted them instead of working to maintain a connection — the well has gone dry the last couple of elections, and we need to do a lot more priming to get the votes flowing again. . ."

Ok. I'll get back to that one soon. I've written about it before and I'll do it again-- but right now I'm stewing over Lost and its ethnic insults.

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