After last nights defeat the Democratic coaches have to go back to their base and begin the painful analysis of recovery, they need to replace their national pollsters as they begin to look at the forensics of what befell their camp on the eve of November 4th 2014; they need to carefully assess aspects of their brand of leadership that have brought rejection and such toxicity with a fairly sized group of the American electorate, causing them such heavy losses in both houses of power and several gubernatorial races. Mia Love’s victory in Utah demonstrated that the issue was not as simplistic as the color of the President’s skin, and it has never been a factor of heightened concern in the President’s camp, nor was it ever allowed by the mainstream media to poison the electorate except in the fringes where the First amendment is practiced without judicious bounds. I believe the President is being judged as any American Quarter Back and his Party as any American sports team –where the stakes are too high and with and with a given assignment of wining the cup at all costs, it matters little whether you are black or white. Could it be the amount of money that was thrown in the political arena–surely 70 million dollars in a gubernatorial race goes a long way to ensure victory, but this sweep could have been attained at a fraction of the cost that was lavishly spent on Adverts not less toxic than in any other campaigns in American campaign history - so money is still not the heaviest factor. I also doubt that it had to do with the right to bear arms! This type of sweeping voter wave was brought on by several issues lumping up slowly in the throats of many voters over a period of time and finally they got their chance of relief at the ballot box to exercise the bitter sweet nature of democracy. Political pundits are going to go back and assess how they lost the Bible belt, did Women, Minorities and students –the Rainbow coalition participate fully this time? Was it the President’s decision not to go to war in Syria, ISIS, EBOLA, Financial bailouts that favored Wall street rather than main street, was it the gas prices that his Party has been silent about while pockets of would be voters were emptied at the pump, or was it the unraveling of his foreign policy in the Middle East, the Ukraine and Russia - the American Embassy in Libya, these things have a way of piling and gathering political momentum at home – especially with folks who have a tendency of keeping track of only things that have gone awry! There is another bit of wisdom that ought to be picked by Democrats in their political calculus – when you have the numbers try and keep all your bases happy by passing their agenda, if you wait and do it piece wise, you might never get to it all. As for the victorious Republicans, this is not a mandate to kill immigration reform and to not give path to citizenship to folks who have lingered in the shadows of illegality for far too long, a victory in Florida proves otherwise, it is an opportunity to show compassionate leadership to many suffering communities. That sentiment rings true on women issues and many other issues close to the hearts of swing voters –who do not like to be taken for granted by any Party they have chosen to align with. Tendo Kaluma Ugandan in Boston
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 12:32:48 +0000
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