Guest-blogging the DNC: Joel McNally
When you see the diverse coalitions Democrats display at their convention, you have to wonder why polls show the election so close except for the power of one factor.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, who visited the Republican convention to tell the truth about Paul Ryan, quoted a tweet describing the GOP color scheme: “The floor was all red, the seats were all blue and the faces were all white.”
Milwaukee Congresswoman Gwen Moore told the Wisconsin delegate breakfast racism was a luxury no ordinary American could afford anymore when Republicans actually plan to return to pre-FDR, pre-LBJ government.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s secret plan to win the election: Simply telling white, rural voters about the fast-growing farm and small town jobs programs Ryan Republicans are killing by blocking the president’s farm bill.
Vilsack’s personal objection to a Ryan lie was the congressman’s recent shaving of an hour off his marathon time. Vilsack’s run five marathons and says every marathon runner knows his exact times.
“It’s the little lies that get you,” said former governor and presidential candidate Howard Dean, sporting new, youthful, dark hair and the same old ability at electric speechifying.
The deciding poll question in the election, Dean said, is 70% think Romney cares only about the wealthy. I wonder why.