Then: James Carville in April of 2009: “Democrats Will Rule Washington for 40 Years:”
For his latest book about Democrats ruling Washington for the next 40 years, consultant James Carville laid his thesis out to Republicans. “They said, ‘Yeah, it’s horrible,’ ” he says. In 40 More Years, How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation, he presents the facts about the last two elections in his “ragin’ Cajun” style. The GOP lost the youth and Hispanic vote and is credibility-starved. Then he kicks the party’s faves: Sarah Palin, the 2008 veep nominee, for once running an Alaskan city hall that “looks just like a Louisiana bait shop,” and Fox’s Bill O’Reilly as stupid, bigoted, and “remarkably nasty, even for a far-right nut job.” Hillary Clinton, whom he championed in the 2008 primaries, gets it for voting for the Iraq war and running a messy campaign. Still, Carville says, Clinton would have made a good president. “The kind of campaign you run doesn’t have much to do with the type of president you’d be.”
Now: “Carville to Democrats: Pray Now to Avoid Disaster in November:”
The election environment has turned so ugly for Democrats that one of their most celebrated election advisers is suggesting days of prayer and pure luck to hold off a fall disaster.
Asked what he’d advise Democrats up for election to do, James Carville says, “I’d probably get them to say—being a Catholic—a couple of Novenas,” a reference to the Catholic nine-day period of private or public prayer to obtain special graces, to implore special favors, or to make special petitions.
Democracy Corps partner and pollster Stanley Greenberg explained why: If the House election were held today, “we’d have a change election.” Meaning the GOP would take control.
Meanwhile, at Newsbusters: Both AP and partisan CNN anchor (is there any other kind?) Rick Sanchez downplay GOP turnout advantage in early primaries.
(H/T: Tim Schmoyer.)
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