Reply #63: On the other hand [View All]

[southlandshari]

You said that "even with somebody from the South as the nominee, don't expect miracles."

I agree. I would expand that to include the flipside, "even with a strong grassroots effort in the South, don't expect miracles."

I know there were thousands of local Dems in Alabama who worked to get out the vote - I am guessing it was the largest concerted effort here in several decades for the Democratic Party. I say this without malice or ill will, but it is a point of fact that we got very little support from the DNC or from the Kerry-Edwards campaign, which sent frequent emails to Democrats across the Deep South urging us to focus our efforts in other "swing" states.

I don't think we need a candidate FROM the South to win the South. Just one that treats states below the Mason-Dixon line as worthy of attention, as part of the national debate.