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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
It was the act of getting them from Point A to Point B that was significant. Nobody is excited enough about Reid to register and go to any polling station on his own.
Again, TNWWT. I see nothing objectionable about mobilizing union organizers to bring out the vote. That Reid's ground team did such a good job is another feather in his cap. I merely offered the fact to counter the suggestion in Ty's piece that Reid's win was all silk-stocking behind the scenes brilliance. A lot of it was ugly, street-level politics. Like any successful politician's.
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Scuttling the political careers of future opponents before they present any real threat to you is "silk-stocking behind the scenes" politics? Not in this town, buddy.
We've got a mayoral candidate who gave another guy *cancer* to get him out of the race--behind the scenes, sure; but "silk-stocking"? Really? Seems dirty, ugly, street-fighting to me. And Reid's attacks on whatshername during the primary were out in the open, so it wasn't even behind the scenes.
