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The road to revival
Washington Monthly, July-August, 2003
In his article "Deciphering the Democrats' Debacle" (May), Ruy Teixeira does not mention a few other significant issues that contributed to the Republican's success in the 2000 and 2002 elections. He does not, for example, include the way minorities were actually discouraged from voting in some areas (most notably, Florida).
JUDY BROWN-MARINO
via email
A Democratic majority is going to take a lot more than a majority of Democratic citizens. Day after day the public is assaulted with continuous right-wing propaganda. Voters cannot make good choices in an environment dominated by a vocal GOP minority.
JOHN MOODY
Studio City, Calif.
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I wish Teixeira had included an analysis of the 2002 elections in Texas, where the GOP took all the state-wide races, beating, among others, Tony Sanchez, a Hispanic candidate for governor in a state with a rapidly increasing Hispanic population. The general consensus here is that white Democrats would not vote for a Hispanic candidate. Was this because of Sanchez's personal baggage? I don't know. But African-American senatorial candidate Ron Kirk, another Democrat, drew a much higher percent of the overall vote in comparison to Sanchez.
There are several elements that I see being relevant to any Democratic gains in the future, including the effects of the tax cuts, the aftermath of the events in Iraq, future military action anywhere in the world involving U.S. troops, the continued lack of job growth, future bankruptcies by major corporations, and the ramifications of the fundamentalist Republican agenda. Of course, let's not forget the importance of serious grassroots organizing of the Democratic base. We need more Democrats emulating the Killer D's of Texas and standing up to the GOP, with a filibuster if that's what it takes.
LINDA SANDOVAL FOLEY
Azle, Texas
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