Mississippi/Alabama

[Akno21]

The South isn't going to swing in the current state of the Democratic Party.  They'll move away from us as fast as they add numbers to Democratic totals.  A populist candidate could easily change that.

I never thought of the south as being especially economically liberal. How economically liberal, if you were to assign a PC score, would you give the south as a whole?

[Akno21]

The South isn't going to swing in the current state of the Democratic Party.  They'll move away from us as fast as they add numbers to Democratic totals.  A populist candidate could easily change that.

I never thought of the south as being especially economically liberal. How economically liberal, if you were to assign a PC score, would you give the south as a whole?

If you made the south the confederacy+ Missouri, Kentucky, and West Virginia, I'd say -.5.  It would be close.  Yet, I'd say the social score would be about +3.  When I say populist, I don't mean nessicarily just economically left, socially right, yet anti-elistist, pro-family values, and common-sense.

West Virginia certainly, but would you really win if you went to Kentucky and promised bigger government?

[Akno21]

The South isn't going to swing in the current state of the Democratic Party.  They'll move away from us as fast as they add numbers to Democratic totals.  A populist candidate could easily change that.

I never thought of the south as being especially economically liberal. How economically liberal, if you were to assign a PC score, would you give the south as a whole?

If you made the south the confederacy+ Missouri, Kentucky, and West Virginia, I'd say -.5.  It would be close.  Yet, I'd say the social score would be about +3.  When I say populist, I don't mean nessicarily just economically left, socially right, yet anti-elistist, pro-family values, and common-sense.

West Virginia certainly, but would you really win if you went to Kentucky and promised bigger government?

Economic Populism isn't nessicarily bigger government. 

Not neccessarily, but it doesn't take a spin master to make it seem like bigger government.

[Akno21]

Well Howard Dean told me that Mississippi would be a Democratic state soon.

Thanks to the "guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks" vote

[Akno21]

Well Howard Dean told me that Mississippi would be a Democratic state soon.

Thanks to the "guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks" vote

I'm glad we have a... er, optimistic chairman for our party.  But I'm not sure how the hell Dean knows anything about "guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks," aside from pro gun-rights, maybe.

Being pro-gun rights might have a large overall impactin preventing the Dems from being the "sissy party".