re: #97 Eclectic Cyborg

Demographics only matter to a degree. What really matters is the groups that actually get out and vote. Tea Partiers are one of the most likely groups to do so. Blacks and Hispanics, not so much. It will change of course, but it will take a bit longer than the racial makeup of the area might suggest.

But Kirel also has a point that what local party leaders talk about makes a difference. Raging against drones is preaching to the choir; It has no appeal beyond the further left half of the Democratic party base. Holding a rally on the topic simply allows local Republicans to plausibly lambast local Democrats as anti-military.

The kind of dudebro ‘leadership’ seen in Lubbock Democrats does not resonate with Latinos at all. Black folks will still vote Democratic, but they won’t be energized. If you want people to vote for you, you’ve got to engage them, and right now that area’s Democratic leadership is so used to protest politics that they don’t know how to fight to win.