Today Mitch McConnell, K Street lobbyists, and the NRSC are all backslaps and smiles…congratulating one another on their ability to get out the black vote in Mississippi. Why? Because they couldn’t have maintained their hold on the Republican Party without them.
The K-Street Lobbyist crowd sent out robocalls implying the Tea Party and Chris McDaniel were racist, because they opposed Obama’s agenda. The calls told voters to “say no to the Tea Party and their disrespectful treatment of the first African-American President.” There were even flyers claiming that a McDaniel victory would stop black Americans from voting.
What do they call their solution? “Expanding the Electorate”.
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I doubt if there was ever a more unlikely place for a thoroughbred racing horse to hail from than Coalinga, California. Coalinga boasts a landscape of cattle, oil wells, and these days it’s pretty much the center of the California drought. In other words, it’s a long way from Kentucky bluegrass.

