I’m still laughing at how long and uninteresting that LA Daily News piece was. Looks like that paper, once right-leaning, has moved left. If I know Weinkopf is still their editor, this might be the case as he, once a staunch TNR conservative, backed out of the pro war camp long ago.
But again, a bunch of college hooligans passing out fliers for some rich left wing candidate is hardly grassroots, in comparison to the little shack a block over from my office here in downtown Indy that won a mayoral race:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Ballard_%28mayor%29
(Greg) Ballard was outspent in the campaign. As late as October 14, he had run no TV ads.[4] An October 19 campaign finance report showed that Peterson had raised $1.5 million since April, and still had that much to spend. Comparatively, Ballard only had $51,000 left, meaning that Peterson had 30 times the funds Ballard had during the last three weeks of the campaign.[5]
On November 6, 2007, Ballard won the race to become mayor of Indianapolis, despite having a meager $300,000 in campaign funds and low name recognition when he began the race.[6] In comparison, Peterson already had $2.9 million in April (Ballard had $9,560 at the time).[7] Unhappiness with rapidly increasing taxes and crime were seen as the biggest reasons for Peterson’s defeat. Republicans also recaptured control of the City-County Council for the first time in four years. In his acceptance speech, Ballard told the audience he considers this campaign “the classic, if not the ultimate, example of grassroots politics!”[8]
