Obama's Rahm Emmanuel - 'America should be more like CHICAGO'

By Rahm Emanuel, Published: November 23

Rahm Emanuel, a Democrat, is mayor of Chicago and represented Illinois’ 5th District in the U.S. House from 2003 to 2009. He was White House chief of staff from January 2009 to October 2010.

Too much post-election analysis has focused on voter demographics and campaign mechanics, leaving Democrats in danger of drawing the wrong lessons from our electoral success.

Demographics alone are not destiny. There is nothing in this year’s election returns that guarantees Democrats a permanent majority in the years to come. President Obama and the Democratic Party earned the support of key groups — young people, single women, Latinos, African Americans, auto workers in the Rust Belt and millions of other middle-class Americans — because of our ideas.

But we cannot expect Republicans to cede the economic argument so readily, or to fall so far short on campaign mechanics, the next time around.

[link to www.washingtonpost.com]

MAYBE RAHM Eman-u-HELL should tell that to the pissed off blacks in CHICAGO:



Last Edited by mrclean on 11/25/2012 12:15 PM