RNC is coming hard at President Obama for well, um, calling for an increase in Latinos/African Americans and Young to the polls.
RNC attacking Obama on "class warfare and race"
As Ben Smith notes, Obama in his video has been saying something that is VERY common and well established and is entirely non controversial. I don't really understand what the RNC is doing here. This is disgusting.
The Republican National Committee Tuesday night accused President Obama of making "an appeal based on class warfare and race" after Obama outlined his party's midterm strategy of returning people who voted for the first time in 2008 to the polls in November.
Obama, in a video released this week, spoke in the demographic terms more commonly -- though very commonly -- used by political consultants, saying Democrats must appeal to "young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women who powered our victory in 2008 [to] stand together once again."
The Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) reports Wednesday on another Democratic strategy to fire up the base, a planned speech by DNC Chairman Tim Kaine that will reportedly allege that Republicans aim to suppress minority votes, a frequent Democratic charge that is inevitably mirrored by GOP claims of vote fraud.
This is a pre-emptive attack on Tim Kaine's new strategy that he's unveiling tomorrow in an attempt to fire up the base strategy for the midterms. Our base happens to be african americans, latinos and the young.
I also suspect that this is being done in an attempt to take the attention off of Charlie Crist from going Indy on Thursday. But nonetheless, Michael Steele wants to play this strategy, he's playing a dangerous game.