Reply #3: A long-time tool that has been fundamental to Repug Southern strategy [View All]

[ignatzmouse]

The Voter Guides have a strong effect on evangelical voters, and this is a tight race. The guides have been part of their Southern strategy for years as have helped turn the South red. I don't know why there has not been a progressive Christian effort to counter these thinly disguised party propaganda sheets with their own guides outlining poverty issues and exposing the immoral tack Republicans have been pushing on the churches, especially the race baiting. If the Democrats want to make a stand to recover the South, this would go a long way to initiating the process. As it stands now, every time they read a Democratic "no response" in the Coalition guides on issues dictated by the Republicans, it both reinforces the evangelical voters sense of Democrats disguising something and also that they don't care about them or their issues.

Jim Marshall should flip this on them this year, however, and call Collins out for favoring hate crimes. It's a tag that will hurt Collins even in the rural South. It's a dishonorable association.