Hello and welcome to another episode of Best of Left Podcast.

Today we have clips from Sam Cedar, Rachel Maddow, Randy Rhodes, Tom Hartman, Fox News,

Keith Obramann, Bill Marr, and The Young Turks.

You understand that if Barack Obama, Barack Hussein Obama, whatever you want to call him,

if Obama wins, it is going to finally put the nail in the coffin of the one guaranteed

electoral strategy, winning strategy for the Republicans over the past nearly 40 years.

It is called the Southern Strategy. It came about after the Civil Rights Act was passed

in 65, and a lot of the formally Democrats, known as Dixie Crats, who were racist,

jumped to the Republican Party. At that point, particularly in the election of Richard Dixon,

Richard Millhaus Nixon. The Southern Strategy was basically race baiting.

You got Ronald Reagan, he heads to Mississippi, that same place where Swarmer and Goodman and those

guys who were killed, trying to help register a black voters in Mississippi, Ronald Reagan launches his

campaign from there in 1980 or 1979, wherever it was, and they have been using this veiled strategy

of racism since then. And I got news for you. Barack Hussein Obama, that's just the next version of

it, but if he wins, it destroys, it destroys the Southern Strategy.

A little bit of the election news that might put a sun shiny green around that dark cloud.

The Illinois Congressional District, that for 21 years was held by the fridge,

former Republican House Speaker Denny Hastert, the district that went for Bush by 55 percent

in 2004, the Congressional District held by the immediate past speaker of the House of the

Republican Party has just gone to a Democrat. In a special election in Illinois on Saturday,

a Democrat won Denny Hastert's seat. Scientists and first-time candidate Bill Foster beat out a

well-known Republican named Jim Oberwice. Jim Oberwice was a former Republican candidate for

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