Democrat Let's Cat out of Bag on VRA

[Brittain33]

White Democrat in Missouri lays to rest the myth that creating 40% Black districts would still allow Blacks to select "the candidate of their choice:"

http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2011/12/russ-carnahans.php

Um, wow, that's quite a misreading of this piece.

[Brittain33]

It is clear that he wrote that the new district will not nominate the Democrat preferred by 85% of Blacks ["the candidate of their choice"] if Russ Carnahan runs.

He didn't write "they won't nominate Clay if Carnahan runs," he wrote "let's assume this, and then fudge some numbers there, and wave our hands a little, and then assume some more, and maybe Carnahan has a chance to win." Note that this guy appears to be the only Democrat who believes this is possible, and he's not even saying he'd win.

This is somewhat less defensible than my quoting one of Ron Paul's newsletters as saying "White Republican Let's Cat out of Bag about Republicans hating African-American's."

[Brittain33]

Anyway, there's no magic number that says things are ok, it depends entirely on the region. 40% in NYC would be plenty. 40% in Mississippi would not be. St. Louis is somewhere in-between but closer to NYC.