All Politics Are Local
By now you heard about the nasty ads running in North Carolina. If you watch television you’ve probably seen them multiple times, because the talking heads want you to know how terrible they are and you need to see them so you can understand.
A number of people have called on McCain to condemn them and he has, and McCain has asked the North Carolina Republican Party not to run them, but those ads are going to run. They are going to run because they have nothing to do with the Presidential campaign: they are about the campaign for governor of North Carolina.
You can listen to the NPR piece at this link: N. Carolina GOP Head Talks About Ad Flap
All Things Considered, April 24, 2008 · Linda Daves, chairwoman of the North Carolina Republican Party, talks with Melissa Block about how the party is poised to begin airing a controversial TV ad linking two gubernatorial candidates with Sen. Barack Obama and, by extension, Obama’s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
The Republican Parties in the South don’t play by national party rules, and don’t really care about the Presidential race. The Republican candidate will probably win their states, so they are worried about their own intrastate races.
I addressed the real reason for the date change of the Florida primary, and it had nothing to do to with the Presidential race. As long as Democrats don’t take the time to study their “enemy” they are going to lose elections in the South.
