A Democratic strategist we know has a dream—or, more precisely, a recurring nightmare. It is that Republicans have learned how to rap, and that the Democratic Party’s core of support has been whittled down to a few neo-isolationist Belgian-endive farmers in Iowa.
The funny thing is that he dreamt this again after the blowout of George Bush on election day. That’s right, the blowout. The Vice President didn’t do much better among blacks—he got about 12 per cent of their votes—than Ronald Reagan did in 1984. This, despite all the talk of the new inclusiveness of the Republican Party, despite all the ballyhooed efforts of Republicans to reach out to minorities, and despite the fact that the only blacks running for the Senate this year were both Republicans.
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