As South Carolina Goes...
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Leroy Chapman, government and politics editor at
The State, the largest newspaper in South Carolina, checks in on November Thursdays to talk about the presidential primary campaigns in South Carolina.
Comments [3]
Of course I hope to vote for the best candidate, depending on the circumstances I would consider voting for a northerner as opposed to a southerner because we've just had too many southerners in office since Kennedy, the exception being Reagan. I realize that Texas and Bush may not be considered "the south" per se, but it would be good to see a little geo-political balance, and if I didn't like Hilary so much I would certainly consider Guiliani. It would be great to have a lifelong New Yorker in the White House.
Ha. As if to prove my point, I just checked a lefty blog that links to state blogs. There's no lefty blog for S. Carolina. As I said, fugettaboutit. Let them continue to wallow in their parochialism.
In general, I am very much in favor of Dean's 50 state strategy, but there are a select few I'd omit.
The minute the D party gives up on the racist white male south, it'll become a party I'll be proud of. Nixon's southern strategy was a great long-run boon to the D party because it got rid of a huge hoard of racists. Ds can win without them, so don't even bother. Make the South the irrelevancy it deserves to be in a progressive country.
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