> I predict the biggest 2008 GOTV among blacks in history. If you
> thought the Black Caucus was pissed at Nader last election, if any
> third party tries to get them to mobilize votes to a third party
> candidate, he'll be more than cussed at.
Most Black votes in the South don't count in the presidential election, so Democratic Party operatives don't bother to spend money to mobilize them either. Take a look at the Louisiana exit polls from 2004, for instance: <http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/ results/states/LA/P/00/epolls.0.html>. If Blacks who lost homes to the hurricane want to vote Democratic and want their votes to matter at all, they had better move to Florida or (better yet) all the way up to Ohio, a Great Migration redux.
If anyone thinks that Democrats manage hurricanes better than Republicans, remember how FDR treated the Bonus Army veterans in 1935: <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/ ErnestHemingwayWhoMurderedtheVets.pdf>.
Yoshie Furuhashi <http://montages.blogspot.com> <http://monthlyreview.org> <http://mrzine.org> * Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: <http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/07/mahmoud- ahmadinejads-face.html>; <http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/07/chvez- congratulates-ahmadinejad.html>; <http://montages.blogspot.com/ 2005/06/iranian-working-class-rejects.html>