The Democratic National Committee task force charged with establishing Democrat policy on future presidential primaries, voted 23-2 last Saturday, to diminish the New Hampshire Primary's role in choosing future party standard bearers by adding more state caucuses immediately before the New Hampshire Primary and by adding additional state primaries right behind the New Hampshire Primary.
Why whack New Hampshire? Well, according to the DNC, its because we're, well, just "too white."
If the Republican National Committee had acted similarly and voted to dead-end the New Hampshire Primary because we were just, "too black," as U.S. Marshall, Rooster Cogburn, warned Texas Ranger, La Boeuf, it would be as if a ton of bricks had fallen on the RNC. The ACLU, NAACP, and every leftward acronym from ABC to XYZ would have jumped on the RNC and stuck like white on rice. Republicans nation wide would be excoriated. They'd weld Bush to Jefferson Davis. No Republican could escape the mud. Neither Mattie Ross, Lawyer Daggett, Daniel Webster, Jimmy Cochran or all the King's horses or all the King's men could put the Republican Party together again.
Face it. The DNC vote was racist.
A few N.H. Democrats get it. Because Democratic Party insiders knew that the DNC outcome was a given, for weeks Kathy Sullivan, N.H. Democratic Party Chair, and her Governor, John Lynch have been preparing for the worst and working hard to inoculate their N.H. Democrats from the predictable effect of just such outlandishness - talking and writing incessantly about how important it is to preserve New Hampshire's first in the nation status. Sullivan, and Lynch, are now, back peddling even faster now than they were before the DNC vote. After all, wanting th...
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...day, at the age of 89. In 1968, in the blackest days of Vietnam, Gene McCarthy, challenged then President, Lyndon Johnson, in the New Hampshire Primary. McCarthy made Johnson's Vietnam excursion a central issue of his campaign. McCarthy got 42% of the Democrat vote and denied Johnson, majority support of New Hampshire Democrats. Johnson became damaged goods. Not much later, Johnson announced he'd not run again. The power of the N.H. Primary.
The New Hampshire Primary is indeed, all about retail politics. A blood sport. High fliers who fail our sniff test fall from grace. Running candidates close and personal means Party bosses can't control outcomes. Bosses can't chose insiders. Why, do you suppose, DNC godfathers hate the N.H. Primary?
New Hampshire's not predictable because we're "too white." The reason we're not predictable is because we give a damn.
Both John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon were elected to Congress at 46, a year in which the New Deal took a serious beating as the Republicans regained control of Congress on the slogan Had Enough? Nixon, of course, had campaigned against incumbent Jerry Voorhis on an anti-New Deal platform, but it's often forgotten that when JFK first ran for the House in 1946, he differentiated himself from his Democratic primary opposition by describing himself as a fighting conservative. In private, Kennedy's antipathy to the traditional FDR New Deal was even more extensive. When Kennedy and Nixon were sworn in on the same day, both were already outspoken on the subject of the emerging Cold War. While running for office in 1946, Kennedy proudly told a radio audience of how he had lashed out against a left-wing group of Young Democrats for being naive on the subject of the Soviet Union, and how he had also attacked the emerging radical faction headed by Henry Wallace.
American politics have long revolved around the Grand Old Party and the Democratic Party. Arguably every conflict can be drawn back to the exacerbation of these two discordant parties. Both entities refuse to approach middle ground because it would hinder the respective party’s prestige or disobey ideals held for the past two centuries. Being a noted Democratic advocate, forty second US president William Clinton speaks at the Democratic National Convention. Because he employs rhetorical strategies, such as antithesis and procatalepsis, the partiality in his speech not only extols the Democrat’s persona but also degrades the Republican’s image.
crazy if you ask me , I feel that the southerners should have felt threatened
When president of south Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem decided that the election of 1956 should be canceled, America strongly agreed so that Minh could not gain control of the whole country. Diem was a Catholic, which angered the country consisting mostly of Buddhist. In opposition to Diem, a new regime was conjured up in south Vietnam called the Vietcong. Vietcong were residents of South Vietnam who were in favor of the communist rule in North Vietnam.
I think it is interesting how Mississippi made the switch from a “Democratic surety to a Republican stronghold,” but I do think that the transition was foreseeable. In Mississippi during 1950s and 1960s, the political ideology of White Democrats was similar to the ideology of the Republican Party at the national level, not the national Democratic Party. Chapters ...
v[v] “Delaware Republican Delegation 2000.” The Green Papers: Election 2000. 9 Feb. 2000. Online.Internet. 18 Mar. 2000. Available: http://www.thegreenpapers.com/PCC/DE-R.html.
The separation of the south and north was not the only separation the United States was going through, the Democratic Party had split. The northern and southern democrats turn on each other. After several delegates walk out of the democratic convention, Douglas, who was not supposed to be put up as a nomination for president because he would not support the idea to make all states have slaves, was nominated for president. After the fact that Douglas was nominated without the entire Democratic Party consent, the southern democrats nominated John C. Breckinridge, who believed that all the states should have slavery, thus a split in the Democratic Party. (Foner,496)
him in a real world of chaos and disorder. In the South, race is one of the most important
All across America the success of the Democratic Party platform can be seen. But we want more. The Democratic Party is determined to giv...
... was more simple to just let Meredith admitted. He had to comply with society in order to keep their vote for the next election. Barnett had to deny Meredith admission at all cost because he did not want Mississippi to think he was a “nigger lover.” He repeated stated that Ole Miss would never be integrated, and segregation would stay while he was governor.
A resolution of the Democratic Party of Texas, a group that the Texas Supreme Court had deemed a "voluntary association," allowed only whites to participate in Democratic primary elections. S.S. Allwright was a county election official; he denied Lonnie E. Smith, a black man, the right to vote in the 1940 Texas Democratic primary.
Historically the south is slow to change. Maybe it is the easy going gentile way of life, or maybe change brings the fear of the unknown. Slavery to segregation to racism to finally acceptance of people who didn’t have a choice in birth. Like a diamond in the rough
We live in a democracy and we vote for whom we think should do what. These men campaigned for an honorable seat in the senate. Mike DeWine the incumbent, Theodore Celeste, Marvin McMickle, Richard Cordray, Ronald Dickson, Frank Cremeans, Daniel Radakovich, John Eastman, John Mcalister. Every one of these men pored lots of time, effort, and money into their campaigns, but the race really only had two candidates Mike DeWine and Ted Celeste.
The Vietnam War was well on its way by the time the Democratic Convention of 1968 rolled around, and so were the anti-war protests. After the Tet Offensive in the spring of 1968 and the famous Broadcast of Walter Cronkite the American public had begun to lose trust in the plans of Lyndon Johnson for Vietnam, and was protesting for peace. The Democratic Convention was an important time and place for protestors to display their displeasure with the Vietnam War, as many important decisions were to be made.