Common Dreams: "Maybe we should sit this election out."

[Savannahmann]

157. The OP misses the entire point of the linked article.

The entire point of the linked article is that the politicians broke their promises to that community. The promise could have been kept any number of times over the last ten years. It should have been kept more than once.

Look at the situation now regarding immigration. President Obama can't act on immigration or we lose the racist vote. At the same time, we're telling the victims of racism to hold on a little longer, endure a little longer. What we're telling them is I know I've lied to you more than once over the last ten years, but this time I swear I'll do the right thing, if you'll vote to support me just once more.

So by delaying Immigration reform, in the hopes we can get the Racist vote, which belongs squarely in the Republican camp I might add, what are we really saying? If we manage to save the Senate, is it because of the Racist vote? Don't we risk losing the Racist vote if we pass Immigration Reform then? I mean, there will be another election in two more years, and if we lose the Racist vote, we could end up with a Republican Senate, and White House. Wouldn't that be awful to put the Racists in charge? or whatever.

My friend, how many times have you seen threads here calling on the Democratic Party to govern by Principles? What does the party promise if we win the Senate in this election? Two more years of Gridlock. Seriously. Two more years of the same damn thing we've had for the last four years. Because the Democratic Senate still won't talk to the Republican House. The Republican House isn't going to give up their issues, they won an election on their issues too. The primary defeat of Cantor showed them they can't sound too accommodating to the Left, and stay in office. So we see the excuses already. It's not the Democratic Party's fault we lost, it's those people nobody ever heard of that were encouraging people to stay home just because the Party didn't follow through on a promise.

Here's the dirty little secret. Nothing is going to happen on Immigration in November either. Because there will be runoff elections that take another six weeks or more to get wrapped up. Georgia Senate election for example. It won't be decided in a runoff until January. Then if we manage to hold the Senate by a single vote, no Democratic Senator looking at re-election in 2016 or starting their Presidential run is going to want to see Immigration Reform by Executive Order. Because then that becomes the issue they are asked about for the next three weeks, too much chance to offend one group or another so early in the game. The author of that article is now aware of this trend, and is sick of it. Promise the moon in the campaign, and then fail to deliver even a moon pie after the election. All so we can hope to siphon off a little of the Racist vote.