Reply #12: I saw someone at one of the DNC quarterly meetings [View All]

[TayTay]

talk about the Asian-Pacific voting in the last election. Kerry took 64% (or so) of it, which was a nice increase. I wold like to see that increase.

I am not too bent out of shape on the criticism of Kerry in the NYTimes and the Globe. The Globe is just schizophrenic about KErry. In April they were up in arms because he 'turned right.' Now some of them are up in arms because he hasn't 'turned right.' Whatever.

I think Scott Lehigh is misreading the electorate. He thinks that basic economic issues are going to always be trumped by fear and the scare tactics of war. I should think he would have turned on a tv in the last couple of weeks and watched the hurricane coverage. Bread-and-butter issues are coming to the fore with a vengeance and the electorate will turn to pols who are turning to them.The embrace of the center is great, as long as the middle-class is thriving and there is growth in the economy. But quite a few people are going to face hard choices this winter over paying to heat their homes, pay their medical and drug bills or pay for gas or pay the escalating cost of food. Lehigh is missing this completely.

The times, they are a changing. Kerry has often been called a politician ahead of his time. (He seems to think months if not years ahead of others in terms of what needs to be done. Witness his BCCI investigation of a bank that was laundering drug money and illegal weapons money.) I keep coming back to Kerry's call on 'felt needs' at so many speeches this year. He is so right. The number of 'felt needs' is about to escalate tremendously and the GOP is only offering 'solutions' that will increase the pain. Lehigh should try looking at this. War and terrorism are not the deciding factors they were even a year ago. (Katrina also proved that the Rethugs can't protect us and what have we been spending all that money on anyway?)