Watching the Republicans - Runaway Train

[Lamplighter]

There are several reports in the press about the schism
within the GOP since the shutdown/debt ceiling.
Some are reporting an actual division of the Republican Party.

I'm curious how the NRC will employ their usual "dirty trick"
and/or "turn strength into weakness" in this process.

Here is one recently implemented strategy to protect GOP incumbents...


The Guardian
10/18/13

Is the Republican party's effort to win black voters just skin-deep?
After Romney's loss in 2012, the RNC made great play of wooing minorities.
Erika Harold exposes how thin that commitment is

When it's convenient to their diversity "story-telling",
the Republican National Committee loves black Republicans.

After Mitt Romney got whacked in the 2012 presidential election
because he ignored minority voters, the RNC pledge[d] it would
engage with minority voters and support more candidates of color.<snip>

Ask black Republican Erika Harold; she can tell you all about it.
The former Miss America 2003 and Harvard Law School graduate, Harold had the audacity
to challenge white, male, first-term Representative Rodney Davis in a GOP primary
for Illinois' 13th congressional seat – and is witnessing the party machine's discrimination up-close and personal.

The Illinois Republican party refused to give Harold access to the GOP data center.
Formerly called the "voter vault", the data center is where the RNC stores
voting information for all voters in the country, which it makes available
to the 50 state parties for free. Candidates are given access to the database to target donors and voters.

In response to Harold's request, the state central committee,
which governs the Illinois GOP, issued a new policy at its 5 October meeting.
The new policy stated that challengers to any Republican incumbent
would not be given access to the voter database.

However, the policy did permit county chairs to give access to
county voter data at their own discretion.
How convenient for the white incumbent, Davis.

Will we be hearing about "candidate fraud" and "candidate ID cards".