They Forgot Michigan March 7, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in Affirmative Action, Campaign 2008, Missouri.trackback
Initiative may affect election
Whoever wins the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination will have to run against both John McCain and Ward Connerly during the campaign for the White House.
McCain, it appears all but certain, will be the Republican Party’s standard-bearer. And Connerly will be the GOP’s weapon of mass distraction.
While McCain can be expected to wage a frontal attack on his Democratic opponent [I'll believe that when I see it -- Blogmeister], Connerly will mount a stealth campaign. He will champion just one issue: opposition to affirmative action.
Connerly is trying to get anti-affirmative action initiatives on the ballot in five states: Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma. While these measures aren’t labeled as the political weaponry of the GOP, they may prove to be the party’s most effective means of combating the surging voter support for Democrats.
In other words, this op-ed writer in the SNL thinks that the Connery initiatives might swing the election toward McCain. Actually, there is some worry about just the opposite — that with McCain at the top of the ticket, this will keep conservative voters at home and take votes away from the Connerly initiatives.
But those worries are overblown. Democrats could carry the day in the states where the Connery initiatives are on the ballot, and the initiatives will all pass nevertheless. Remember Michigan 2006 — MCRI won, in spite of Democrats Granholm and Stabenow being re-elected for Governor and Senate.
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