Sunday, September 10, 2006
ABC Agitprop
Let me again recommend David Kaiser’s blog “History Unfolding.” Kaiser is a well-respected historian who regularly publishes long, reflective, very un-blog-like, articles on foreign and domestic policy.
I hope you’ll grab a cup of coffee and click over to “History Unfolding” for his latest, on the ABC 9/11 Mini-Series.
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What are they thinking of? My very Republican next door neighbor has been sent an entertaining hit piece on Huffman. It shows him posed in a chicken suit and the theme is (surprise surprise) if you want a conservative you don’t want this guy…he’s chickened out six times on voting on illegal immigration.
The mailing is clearly labeled as from the Arizona Democratic Party. How will my neighbor take this? Will he think, “Thank God the Democrats have sent me this crucial information?” Or will he think, “Well, these Democratic rascals don’t want me to vote for Huffman so they must be really afraid of him. Guess I’ll vote Huffman?”
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Nothing is over ‘til it’s over and I can’t wait for the end of this primary season, which is one of the weirdest in my memory. For one thing I’ll be happy to see Democrats start attacking Republicans instead of one another.
Also, I’m not sure of the wisdom of spending money to play in the other guy’s primary, mainly because I have no idea if this is an effective use of campaign funds.
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I’m going to do the old fashioned thing on Tuesday and actually go to the polls. No vote by mail for me…that’s like going to church by mail.
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2 comments:
This notion of one party trying to tell the other party's primary voters how to vote strikes me as, well, nuts.
I asked someone whom I consider to be an expert on this, and the response was that vast majority of people won't reach an understanding of where the flyer, tv ad, radio, etc., is coming from.
They just see good Steve or bad Steve, good Giffords or bad Giffords, and make no distinction regarding the messenger.
Things are looking pretty obvious at this point.
Go Randy!
Fedup,
Noticed you asked me about "Die for a Lie" over at Eighth. Will answer here (folks interested in seeing it can go to Latas website and click on the ads link).
An effort to paint Giffords as favoring the war is silly. Perhaps his having a son who fought will produce some empathy.
Even if Latas DOUBLES what the polls show, he is only 10%.
From my perspective the horse race is on the red side, and my sentiments there have been made clear.
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