Not so sure. After the convention in 1988 Jesse Jackson went to Dukakis and said, what do I get? Dukakis said, nothing, I won. Jackson himself may have campaigned hard for Dukakis, but his supporters were less than enthusiastic. Dukakis lost.
>Louis Proyect wrote: >> http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/25/obama-defies-base-hires-wall-street-lobbyist-for-re-election-campaign/ >> >> Obama defies base, hires Wall Street lobbyist for re-election campaign >> By Matthew Boyle - The Daily Caller 12:02 AM 10/25/2011 >> >> President Barack Obamas new senior campaign adviser is a longtime Wall >> Street lobbyist, and has the potential to damage the presidents >> aspirations to appeal to the protesters currently occupying New York >> Citys Zuccotti Park. > >the logic of the US two-party system -- and the accompanying ideology >of the "lesser of two evils" -- suggests that even if Obama appoints >almost anyone to his staff and his supporters could find someone worse >on the GOP candidate's staff or something worse in his or her platform >to justify voting for Obama. The leftists and liberals who support >Obama are a captive audience: he can blatantly ignore their values and >interests without suffering any significant electoral consequences. He >might lose some enthusiastic grassroots supporters, but the only one >whose strategy relies on that kind of base is Ron Paul. > >-- >Jim Devine / It's time to Occupy the New Year! >_______________________________________________ >pen-l mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
