Landrieu: Obama and I struggling because South is racist/sexist

[Miles]

Thid is such a non-story. Of course blacks have struggled in the south.

As much as I love my state, remember, less than 25 years ago, David Duke was getting near 60% of the white vote.

And as for this 'sexism,' the Louisiana legislature has one of the lowest shares of women of any state chamber.

[Miles]

I like this. Its a good way of driving up African-American turnout.

I am not sure if pulling the race and war on women cards out is going to help her more than it's going to hurt her.

Nuanced or not, couched in politically correct words or not, she likely offended a good number of Louisiana voters.

It certainly won't help her avoid the inevitable runoff, so it was probably better left not said at this point.

I doubt it. I know a lot of people voting against Landrieu; they're not doing so just because of this.

[Miles]

I never said that the quote would be determinative. I think I pretty much said it won't matter for Tuesday's election.

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Er, I'm not sure. Given how few swing voters there are in LA, this might not hurt her as much as you seem to think. This could very well motivate blacks to turnout out for her; otherwise a party that thinks racism doesn't exist anymore could win.

[Miles]

Well, what do ya know: actual black leaders agree with her!

What's interesting is that the first part of her quote explaining why Obama can't present himself well in the state dealt with his energy policies. 'Don't know why no one wants to focus on that. She cited race as a factor in why he struggles in the south, not the sole factor. Spending, ya know, a decent amount of time there, I agree.

[Miles]

^ Exactly, as I pointed out earlier in the thread. It isn't going to be as detrimental to her prospects as some are suggesting.  

It may have the effect of rallying the vote, but its still an honest assessment of the situation. Maybe she felt like this idiot was starting to have an effect on the race and went the extra length to point out she has sympathy for the struggles blacks in the south have faced over the years.

[Miles]

She was going to lose anyway and what she said is incontrovertibly true, so let's not swoon over the hurt feelings of knuckle dragging racist rednecks.

Weren't Republicans supposed to hate political correctness?  We need to stop making such a big deal out of being "offended."  If you're offended by the truth, so be it but you can't demand that everyone else humor your personal alternate reality.  

Yep. Jindal, for example, defended the Duck Dynasty guy's anti-gay comments but is asking Landrieu to apologize for this.