How Nathan's team gets out the black vote

[Max Sawicky]

. . .
The bottom line is that the larger the percentage of the Dem vote made up of
african americans, union households, latinos and other base voters, the more
the Dems have to pay attention to those voters for fear of their
"defection", not defection to a third party but to not voting at all.
-- Nathan Newman

The post-bottom line is what a wonder it is, how much
labor and minorities contribute to the Dems' campaigns,
and how little they get in return.  W/o labor and
minorities, Gore would be the deadest duck in the
universe.

I'm not offended by the depiction of vote mobilization.
This is politics on the ground.  Nobody should not expect it
to be pretty.  When we did our big anti-Fed demo in Washington
in 1994, an unemployed workers advocacy group filled a couple
of buses by promising the men a free lunch.

If anybody read Cullen's piece, it was interesting to note
that Gore hampered some Congressional campaigns by keeping
Clinton out of 'battleground' states like Michigan.  One
could make a reasonable argument that Gore's unease w/
Clinton harmed Dem congressional races as much as Nader
harmed Gore.  If I had a choice between the present Congress
and Gore in the WH, or Dem majorities in both Houses and
Bush, I would jump for door number two in a hot minute.

mbs