Popish Politics

There is delicious irony in the juxtaposition of the New Yorker story about Art (“I am not an heir”) Pope and Tuesday’s election.
 
The New Yorker critique of Pope is that he spent a lot of his money to support tough, negative, independent campaign attacks on Democrats – which helped Republicans win control of the legislature last year.
 
Democrats interviewed professed to be appalled.  (See my October 4 blog “Stop Whining”.)
 
In the Wake school board elections this week, well-heeled Democrats spent a lot of their money to support tough, negative, independent campaign attacks on Republicans – which came within a hair of helping Democrats win control of the board.
 
Public Policy Polling, which guided much of the Democratic effort, did an analysis touting its winning strategy: “relentlessly hammering GOP candidates for their ties to an increasingly unpopular movement.”
 
PPP says Democrats won “by running against the Tea Party. It’s a model Democratic candidates across the country should consider following in 2012.”
  
My earlier blog advised Democrats to stop whining, get to work and find their Art Pope. They apparently have.
 
In the meantime, let’s not get too high and mighty about Pope’s political sins.
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Popish Politics

There is delicious irony in the juxtaposition of the New Yorker story about Art (“I am not an heir”) Pope and Tuesday’s election.
 
The New Yorker critique of Pope is that he spent a lot of his money to support tough, negative, independent campaign attacks on Democrats – which helped Republicans win control of the legislature last year.
 
Democrats interviewed professed to be appalled.  (See my October 4 blog “Stop Whining”.)
 
In the Wake school board elections this week, well-heeled Democrats spent a lot of their money to support tough, negative, independent campaign attacks on Republicans – which came within a hair of helping Democrats win control of the board.
 
Public Policy Polling, which guided much of the Democratic effort, did an analysis touting its winning strategy: “relentlessly hammering GOP candidates for their ties to an increasingly unpopular movement.”
 
PPP says Democrats won “by running against the Tea Party. It’s a model Democratic candidates across the country should consider following in 2012.”
  
My earlier blog advised Democrats to stop whining, get to work and find their Art Pope. They apparently have.
 
In the meantime, let’s not get too high and mighty about Pope’s political sins.
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