A couple of interesting election snippets that caught my eye …
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“Forget about Big Business moving away from us,” said one administration official, “we’re losing the Kiwanis Club guys who own a small business and spend their nights wearing those funny hats.
They’re independents and we need them but all the class warfare stuff seems to have pushed them away.”
Daily Beast, Obama Secretly Courts Big Business, by Charlie Gasparino
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-10-14/how-obama-secretly-courts-big-business/2/
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“The Democratic Party has “an inefficiently distributed base of voters.”
It “consists mostly of union workers, upscale urban liberals and minority voters, many of whom are clustered in highly Democratic districts.”
In many other districts, Democratic candidates depend on “independents and soft partisans,” the very voters who have defected from the Obama coalition of 2008.
If Democrats lose control of the House by a small number of seats, this might be condign punishment for a practice they favor and that Republicans have cynically encouraged — racial gerrymandering.
It concentrates African-American voters in majority-minority districts in order to guarantee the election of minority candidates.
George F. Will: An election of historic significance
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=George+F.+Will%3A+An+election+of+historic+significance&articleId=289c83e0-246d-46a2-aaa6-701321cf476f
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