<div>In my area, SW Missouri, a local Trannie activist Midge Potts (Code Pink), ran as a Republican against Roy Blunt in the primaries and actually recieved more votes that the Democratic candidate does in the general election. She came in second out of four which is not bad. Of course, she had a lot of her progressive friends vote republican...</div> <div> </div> <div>jim</div> <div> </div> <div><BR><BR><B><I>Doug Henwood <dhenwood@panix.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR>On Apr 1, 2007, at 8:57 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:<BR><BR>> "electability" (the seal of Master Class approval<BR><BR>What's the point of mounting a campaign that's sure to lose - and not <BR>merely lose, but lose enormously? Purity of gesture?<BR><BR>I'm still waiting for a list of those "leftists" that slavishly <BR>follow the "Master Class" (which weirdly seems to include no <BR>Republicans). The leftists I know best, myself and Liza, voted for <BR>Kerry in 2004, for a set of special reasons (Bush is a Christian <BR>fundamentalist who started a horrific war), but we voted for Nader in <BR>1996 and 2000. The people I know around WBAI and the Brecht Forum <BR>either don't vote, or vote for minor party candidates. Many Nation <BR>people will vote for the Dem nominee, but I'm not sure how many of <BR>them are leftists by any strict definition - and a significant <BR>minority supported Nader, esp in 2000. Counterpunch and Z types don't <BR>normally support Dems. The CP supports Dems, but none of the sects <BR>do. Greens don't support Dems by definition. Nor do anarchists. So....?<BR><BR>Doug<BR>___________________________________<BR>http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><BR>Jim Davis<br>Ozark Bioregion, USA<br><br>New: http://www.lulu.com/content/306796<br>http://shops.half.ebay.com/brothershak_W0QQmZbooks