GOP uses Obama to boost Republican candidates

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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i1N5W9351gja6nqxEOHe2WQlgqMQD90E0FG00

By JIM KUHNHENN – 1 day ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Turns out Louisiana and Mississippi weren't quite finished with the Democratic presidential campaign. Sen. Barack Obama won each state's primary earlier this year. But these days his face still appears in television ads in both states, this time from Republicans trying to turn him into a liability for Democrats in two looming special elections for long-held Republican seats.

Democratic victories would be a serious setback for Republicans. But it also would go a long way to reassure nervous Democrats, particularly undecided superdelegates, that Obama would not present a hardship to House or Senate candidates running in tough races.

Democratic losses would give Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton new ammunition to build her case for her presidential candidacy by questioning the sturdiness of Obama's coattails.

"I think people want to know what chances we're going to be having in November if Obama is the nominee," said U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Missouri Democrat who has endorsed Clinton.

"There are a host of judgments that superdelegates make," said Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat who has not endorsed either presidential candidate. "Certainly a special election held close to a contested primary like this one could be very relevant."

[Upton]

1. Didn't work in Louisiana

http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5555

[NNN0LHI]

2. Thats good news

[KittyWampus]

You also failed to include this snippet-

Democratic Party officials and strategists, however, say the Obama links in the Mississippi and Louisiana races are having no effect.
"The fact that these two seats are competitive is news in itself," said Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "You've got the NRCC and Freedom's Watch spending a boat load to try and defend seats that were just held by Republicans. It shows the mood change throughout the electorate."

[Zachstar]

14. Bingo!

[babylonsister]

3. Was this written before a Dem from LA won a seat yesterday?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5804473

I wonder if the AP will be singing a different tune today.

[EV_Ares]

4. They would like to think so, LOL, eom.

[mucifer]

5. ooo black people are scary so we can never vote for them to be president

because people will be scared.

:sarcasm:

[Exilednight]

6. This tactic will only work if the districits in question are in highly white racist areas .......

which still heavily exist in the south. The only ammunition it could give Hillary is the "they vote for him in racist districts" and no one in the Democratic party, including Hill, will go there.

[brentspeak]

11. "which still heavily exist in the south"

How do you know this?

[Exilednight]

15. I spend time down in those areas for my full time job. I was on my New Orleans one weekend......

and my friend gave me directions for a short cut. I got lost and stopped to ask for directions. The conversation went something like this.

Me: Excuse me, I think I took a wrong turn. I'm heading into New Orleans and I was told to take (forgot the name of the road).

Him: Howa yaankee like you knows abouts a short cut.

Me: My friend told me about it.

Him: Yous took a wrong turn, goes back up the road and turn right at the sign. Yous can't miss the sign.

Sign: "Don't let the sun set on your n----r ass"

That was the scariest day of my life.

[VolcanoJen]

7. Don Cazayoux won the run-off seat in Lousiana.

That seat is in a heavily Republican district, and had been held by a Republican for 20 years.

And a Democrat took it, despite the GOP running anti-Cazayoux ads linking him to the "radical liberal agenda of Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama." You can watch the ad here... it's kinda laughable, and it wasn't effective.

If you look at this race, and the run-off race in Dennis Hastert's old district in Illinois that was also won by a Democrat who Obama campaigned for and made an ad for, I'd say the GOP are shaking in their boots right now.

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Demeter]

8. I Was Going To Ask How That Was Working Out for the GOP

but I guess you all posted the answer before I got to the question!

[jpak]

9. Susan Collins did the same at Maine's GOP clusterfuck this weekend...

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=185414&ac=PHnws

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"When Republicans distance themselves from their pastor, they do it by sitting in the back of the church," said Collins.

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[Buzz Clik]

10. That's because they think Obama will win. They'll do the same if Hillary pulls off the upset.

[dcindian]

12. Good anything that pisses off the GOP is fine with me.

Obama gets my vote.

You go ahead and agree with the GOP.

[against all enemies]

13. Is David Duke running again?

[bowens43]

16. and if hillary had a snowball's chance in hell of getting the nomination

they would be using her , so what's your point?

[Alhena]

17. Childers will have my vote- I have something to say about that one