Comments on: Learning from Louisiana http://rochesterturning.com/2008/05/05/learning-from-louisiana/ turning the tide upstate Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:16:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Exile on Ericsson St. http://rochesterturning.com/2008/05/05/learning-from-louisiana/#comment-139866 Exile on Ericsson St. Mon, 05 May 2008 14:20:45 +0000 http://rochesterturning.com/2008/05/05/learning-from-louisiana/#comment-139866 There's probably nothing else they can do. But this won't work. There’s probably nothing else they can do. But this won’t work.

]]> By: davesnyd http://rochesterturning.com/2008/05/05/learning-from-louisiana/#comment-139853 davesnyd Mon, 05 May 2008 12:38:37 +0000 http://rochesterturning.com/2008/05/05/learning-from-louisiana/#comment-139853 What's missing from your analysis, though, is: what else *can* they do? What else can Kuhl run on? They'll stick to what they know because they don't have a lot of other options. Kuhl hasn't spearheaded local development efforts that have brought us out of our perpetual recession, he doesn't champion positions that are popular in his district (out of Iraq, health care reform, better governance, better environmental policies, smarter economic policies) but chooses to lock-step vote with the not-so-popular President, and he can't fall back on family values or shared family warmth because of his own circumstances. So all that's left to him is demagoguing on immigrants and the three Gs. We'll see how it turns out in November. What’s missing from your analysis, though, is: what else *can* they do? What else can Kuhl run on?

They’ll stick to what they know because they don’t have a lot of other options. Kuhl hasn’t spearheaded local development efforts that have brought us out of our perpetual recession, he doesn’t champion positions that are popular in his district (out of Iraq, health care reform, better governance, better environmental policies, smarter economic policies) but chooses to lock-step vote with the not-so-popular President, and he can’t fall back on family values or shared family warmth because of his own circumstances.

So all that’s left to him is demagoguing on immigrants and the three Gs. We’ll see how it turns out in November.

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