>This Dem Party non-campaign on behalf of popular suffrage
>that you embrace points up the limits of this maneuver.
>It's not a strategy or commitment. It's a tactic with
>the projected life-span of a fruit fly. In fact, it may
>be over before you finish reading this sentence.
Max, there are major lawsuits on every aspect of the Florida disenfranchisement, the Justice Department has opened up an investigation, Clinton has publicly called for restoring the right of felons to vote, and mass rallies have been held up and down the state and in DC.
Not a bad "non-campaign" to hang up Bush's coronation by the media for over a month. In the end, the Bush forces control the controlling institutions for this fight, from the US Supreme Court to the Florida Secretary of State and legislature to the US Congress. They have the power to steal this election and in the short run, there is nothing progressive forces can do to stop them.
But the campaign is for the long term and that is what is being organized, from community newspapers to email to mass meetings. Keep throwing bricks from the sidelines. It is so useful to progressive forces to have you at their back on this issue.
-- Nathan Newman