[Apple Pan Dowdy]

It will be interesting to see if Barnes caves in to the McKinney's "blackmail".

[mewzilla]

Notice that the author said that this will be a test of Barnes' skills and not Barnes' principles.

[Guillermo]

bump for later

[mewzilla]

Ain't she something?

[Coop]

Despite the presence of Sen. Joe Lieberman on the Democratic ticket in 2000, as the first Jewish-American vice presidential candidate, Democrats received fewer Jewish-American votes than ever before.

First time I'd ever heard this stat.

[Cicero]

Interesting that this article points out that Jewish support for Democrats began to drop EVEN BEFORE Bush came out so strongly in favor of Israel, and that even the presence of Lieberman on Gore's ticket failed to pull in as many of their votes as in the previous election. That's a very encouraging sign, because historically most Jews have considered Christian conservatives to be their enemies. The Bob Jones controversy that McCain and the press whipped up was meant to solidify support for Gore among this constituency, as well as to drive a wedge between conservative Protestants and Catholics. Instead, it may have backfired among more religious-minded Jews, just as it backfired among sensible Catholics and Protestants.

On the other hand, I doubt whether the Green Party would be crazy enough to sign up Cynthia McKinney. What could she possibly bring them but trouble? Ralph Nader is a first-class troublemaker, but his concerns are very different from hers, to say the least.

I don't think the McKinneys have anywhere to go at this point. They are washed up. But the controversy will linger and continue to expose the flaws in the Democrat coalition.

[white trash redneck]

I love watching the RATs trying to weasel (oops! apologies to the Weasel-Americans) out of this fix.