If this is close or a loss we need to do some hard thinking as to how we are campaigning as a party. As the democrats go hard left we seem to be losing ground in very republican states. We should be blowing out the democrats in solid red states. It’s easy to point at Texas or Florida where out of staters might be closing the gap, but in Mississippi, Alabama or Montana, we should dominate. Something is not adding up as to the citizens belief systems and how they are voting.
With all due respect to southerners 50 and over, YES your younger groups are still less liberal than the northern ones, and in lesser numbers.
But to say they haven’t been affected by the country’s culture change over the past 50 years would be a lie.
They have been indoctrinated outside of the house from the moment they could talk and walk.
I believe this is having a detrimental effect, as well as illegals.
Don’t think for a minute Montana, Mississippi and Alabama aren’t experiencing an influx of out of staters...Montana is dealing with Californians and MS/AL, especially in the gulf coast regions, is dealing with out of state influx.
Well, it doesn’t help if you publically spout what some consider racist remarks.
There actually was a lot of suppression of blacks in Mississippi (and my state of Alabama) but it was white people giving them their due in the end. The Voting Rights Act, Civil Rights Act, etc., were external pressures but in the end, it was Christian White People of those states that accepted God is father of us all and like the Samaritan and the Jew, we must always help each other despite or differences and become equals.
Now I actually think that blacks and whites in the South get along better than other parts of the country. Controversial but true.
Just like Todd Atkin on rape and abortion, why do we keep making these divisive statements? All Atkin should have said is he was against rape, rather than explain a woman rarely gets pregnant from it.
Now with Hyde-Smith, she makes statements about hangings in what we know was an area once infamous for its lynchings of blacks. Why talk about this!!!???
It just becomes a bloody flag for the democrats to wave around.
I think it would have been enough to say you stood by the death penalty when warranted and you are a strong opponent of criminality. Why get into the aspects of HOW to put murders to death, like being hanged? NOT a thing to discuss in a divisive election year.
It’s the Barbour machine. People are growing weary of them
It must be looked at, win or lose. I've written a lot about this lately so I'm not going into more detail here, but suffice to say that the lack of any common Republican message and strategy other than to hope the President holds a local rally combined with no thought to guarding against RAT voter fraud are why the Senate majority will be held hostage by Romney channeling his inner McCain and the House is in RAT hands.