Possible theory about the "Hackett job".

[yourout]

If Rove's slimey fingerprints are on the whisper campain about Hackett here is one
possible reason.

With the mechanisms in place Rove can easily offset a large turnout of African-American
votes for Sherrod Brown. Shortages of machines, poll challenges, Voter ID, all will take a substantail bite out of Brown's support.

If Hackett had been the nominee then the potential centrist vote(middle class white) could
have swung the election and there would have been little Rover could have done short of machine tampering. It will be very easy for Rove and company to paint Brown as a bleeding heart liberal to the potential crossover voters thereby eliminating the one variable he could not control if Hackett was on the ballot.

[Bluestar]

1. Black Vote?

You're not subscribing to Rush Limbaugh's mistaken announcement on the radio the other day that Sherrod Brown is African American, are you?

[yourout]

3. No................ I know he is white.

Just saying Brown will probably generate more interest with African Americans than Hackett.

[havocmom]

2. Skinner had an interesting post about it last week

He showed how Hackett just didn't have the numbers, both in fundraising and actual voters.

[babylonsister]

4. Nah, the primaries are in motion. The one who is more electable

will be supported. End of story. I don't like conspiracy theories, unless they apply! :evilgrin:

[On the Road]

5. With All Due Respect,

Hackett was doing a pretty good job of eliminating the "potential centrist vote" all by himself.

I think what happened was that a lot of the DC party leadership thought they were getting a young, strong, appealing moderate candidate with impeccable military credentials who would play well across the board. Then Hackett began talking like an activist, equating evangelicals with Al Qaida and freaking out the people who gave him his ticket. They decided he had made himself unelectable.

I would rather have had the voters decide on whether Hackett should have been the nominee. He was treated shabbily. The leadership may have been wrong. But that seems to be the chain of events.

[liberal43110]

6. No conspiracy here

The state Democratic party simply wanted to save money by avoiding a primary. Period. End of story.