For 50 years now, ever since Dick Nixon taught them how, Republicans have used the same tactics over and over again to try and win elections: attack Democrats as snobby elites and raise questions about issues like affirmative action to try and appeal to working class white voters who tend to be the biggest group of swing voters. With Nixon and Reagan, that at least made political sense even though it was reprehensible, because they both had close personal connections to the working class. But even with the Bush families' degrees from Yale and long-term family wealth, they still did it. Even with Mitt Romney's two degrees from Harvard and his great wealth, Republicans are still doing it. And with Scott Brown's incredible wealth and his campaign team's close ties to Harvard, they are doing it in their nasty campaign against Elizabeth Warren.
For months, the Massachusetts Republican Party has sent video after video and press release after press release attacking Elizabeth Warren, with great vitriol, for being a Harvard elitist. They have made the accusation in dozens of press releases and videos. Polling shows that the Harvard association doesn't hurt Warren, but the Republicans keep attacking along these lines because it is the only thing they know how to do. Even though Warren's biography shows a woman who grew up in a working class family barely hanging on, that she pulled herself up by her bootstraps through her hard work and determination, they are going to continue to try and distract voters from the important economic issues in this race by smearing her with these whispers about affirmative action and accusations of, horror of horrors, getting a job teaching at the school where Mitt Romney got his two degrees.
They so desperately want to do this that they are starting to be downright funny in their tactics: having their campaign chairman Robert Maginn, using his status as a double degree holder from Harvard, demand an investigation of Warren's history of using affirmative action at Harvard. Given that it has already been attested by her entire interview committee that she didn't, and given that affirmative action is not a crime even if she had, there is absolutely nothing to investigate. But give them an award for pure silliness: getting their Harvard elitist to pull rank to demand they look into this. The Bushes and Karl Rove must be laughing hard at this one.
Maginn has come under fire before for running a Republican-style campaign of saying anything it takes and does to win -- even to the point of encouraging, accepting, and gloating about apparently impermissible corporate donations to the Massachusetts Republican Party. But this is a new low and represents one of the most hypocritical developments yet in a race where Brown's hypocrisy has already been rampant even for a Republican.
This race is going to have a lot of twists and turns. We can count on only two things. First, we know Elizabeth Warren is going to keep taking on the big Wall Street special interests that are funding Scott Brown's campaign. Second, we know Scott Brown is going to keep going to the old school, Dick Nixon-inspired Republican playbook.
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| Obama | Romney | |
|---|---|---|
| Electoral Votes (270 to win) |
332 | 206 |
| Obama | Romney | |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 65,899,660 | 60,932,152 |
| Percent | 51.1% | 47.2% |
| Democrats* | Republicans | |
|---|---|---|
| Current Senate | 53 | 47 |
| Seats gained or lost | +2 | -2 |
| New Total | 55 | 45 |
| Democrats | Republicans | |
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| Seats won | 201 | 234 |
put the onus upon me to be highly informed.
So as a 20/7 -- 12 Year observer let me assure you As the night follows the day that:
The Republican Candidate, Leaders and Operatives are: Immoral, Unpatriotic Liars with the
values from the Lower Levels of Hell.
As for Americans who work for a lving who vote for them: They are Bamboozlies voting to be the Turkeys at their own Thanksgiving.
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Yes, things were tough on that reservation. It's hard for a Native American to escape.
And despite the fact that she was hired for who she is as a good teacher she put down minority
in the directory hoping to meet others like her.
I have met many people who are part Indian such as Irish-Cherokee, who have spoken about it
and idendify with it, and to make scenes over this a reflection of the Moral bankruptcy of the Scott Brown and those who represent him.
All that said: At the time Elizabeth began her studies and work in her field WOMEN WERE MINIORITIES IN THE LEGAL AND Engineering Professions.
And so it appears that she is an Angel on the Shoulder of God in comparison to her lowly
opponent -- Who voted AGAINST Transparency with Regard to Citizens United, and to allow
Insurance companies to harm the lives of women.
Boils down to -Republicans == Predatory Standards for Corporations, the LOOTING OF OUR TREASURY and Destruction of OUR Government that Republicans fight for every day!
Versus We The People of the United States and Smart Government that we PAY to protect our Intersts that Democrats represent.
Real men vote Democratic