Good Riddance

Just as I was feeling threadbare with this election cycle my kid took an interest in politics. 

She stirred up dinner table conversations about the Presidential contest, Natural Resource District Board races, state legislative seats, stormwater bond issues State Supreme Court appointments. Unsurprisingly she had questions and offered up opinions about all of it.

We were talking last night about the tipping point of this particular election cycle. Past the 2012 General Election pollsters will no longer be able to group “minority voters”. There’s a particular distaste I’ve had for the sentimental media message that Governor Romney offers up the last campaign of its sort. That there won’t be a Presidential candidate that unabashedly courts white voters to the exclusion of other groups. 

I’m not the least bit nostalgic about it.

My hope is that the strategy and message employed by Governor Romney is retired due to natural causes. Less a matter of demographics and voting blocks. More a reflection of this campaign's stance on climate, immigration, women's health, and the 47% of Americans...

The white voter campaign strategy offers the weaker argument, the dimmer future, the narrower alternative.

We clinked glasses around my dinner table last night upon the occasion of this 'last campaign of it's sort' and said: Good riddance.