Does anyone know how long barrack has been a Democrat?I am assuming since he ran for office .

[saracat]

But he has such a love for the GOP, I wonder if he was always a Dem?Hillary has been ripped for being a Goldwater girl in college but what was Barrack?

[katty]

1. he is a Colin Powell/Condi Rice type, w/ a younger spin

[robbedvoter]

2. Didn't sound like much of one when he wrote the "A of H" book

I only read the Raygun snippets - but that was enough...

[jillan]

3. You mean The Audacity of Hype?

[katty]

7. ha!! very good

[Clinton Crusader]

4. It's my understanding he was an Indie and became a Dem

for this election.

Indie my ass. I think he's really an Indie with HUGE RW leanings.

[saracat]

5. Can't be.he wouldn't have been elected to either the State senate or the senate as an indie.

[FedoraLV]

6. At least since 1984

when he moved to Chicago out of admiration for Harold Washington and changed how the Democratic party had traditionally sought African American voter registrations:
<http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/January-1993/Vote-of-Confidence/>

Background from the article:
"The regular Democratic Party spearheaded most drives, doing so using one primary motivator: money. The party would offer bounties to registrars for every new voter they signed up (typically a dollar per registration). The campaigns did produce new voters. "But bounty systems don't really promote participation," says David Orr, the Cook County clerk, whose office is responsible for voter registration efforts in the Cook County suburbs. "When the money dries up, the voters drop out." Nor did the Democratic Party always vigorously push registration among minorities, Orr says. "It's not that they discouraged it. They just never worked hard to ensure it would happen."

All of that changed with the ascension of Harold Washington. In the months just prior to his 1983 Democratic primary win, 120,000 new black voters were registered, most by registrars who received no bounty."


-FedoraLV