![Yes on 1A mailer<\/a> that found itself in the California’s mailboxes today, and its sad-sack effort to take tepid statements made by Barack Obama and somehow spin them into rhetorical gold that would earn the support of Democrats.<\/p>\nUnnoted in that post, however, was another mailer that arrived simultaneously in support of 1C. Let’s compare the two:<\/p>\n](\"http:\/\/i28.photobucket.com\/albums\/c232\/hekebolos\/DSC_0918.jpg\"){kind=link}
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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\nI’m no expert in direct mail, but I can tell you that as a Democrat, the one on the left endorsed by the California Democratic Party gets my attention. The one on the right? Not so much.<\/p>\n
Ultimately, of course, this is all fairly academic: according to the current polling, neither 1A nor 1C have a bat’s chance in hell of passing<\/a> on May 19th.<\/p>\n Still, the inability of the 1A crowd to put out as unequivocal and clear a mailer as the 1C crowd was the difference of just 22 votes on the Convention floor<\/a>. 22 votes.<\/b> If the polling on the issue were any closer, that fact would make a big difference in the media war.<\/p>\n Let no one say that each individual activist doesn’t make a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dante noted<\/a> earlier today the Yes on 1A mailer<\/a> that found itself in the California’s mailboxes today, and its sad-sack effort to take tepid statements made by Barack Obama and somehow spin them into rhetorical gold that would earn the support of Democrats.<\/p>\n Unnoted in that post, however, was another mailer that arrived simultaneously in support of 1C. Let’s compare the two:<\/p>\n
| <\/td>\n | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n I’m no expert in direct mail, but I can tell you that as a Democrat, the one on the left endorsed by the California Democratic Party gets my attention. The one on the right? Not so much.<\/p>\n Ultimately, of course, this is all fairly academic: according to the current polling, neither 1A nor 1C have a bat’s chance in hell of passing<\/a> on May 19th.<\/p>\n |