Under-the-Radar Voting...

It's no surprise that La Grace doesn't get it, of course, but it's important to point out that the Democratic attacks on Bobby Jindal's religious beliefs may be very effective. Just how effective they are won't be seen until election day, however.

Just look at Grace's payoff pitch:

Not that many people are likely to see the ad. But if Jindal has his way, many more will hear him say that he's being attacked for his Christian faith. If that's misleading too -- and it is, since the Democratic ad doesn't question Jindal's faith per se, just his attitude towards those who don't share it -- who cares? Jindal still gets to remind voters that, Indian heritage, Hindu upbringing and Ivy League education notwithstanding, he's just a regular church-going Louisiana guy.

Jindal gets to remind voters that he's dark-skinned and started out life as a Hindu. Yeah, that's going to go over real big in a state that almost elected David Duke governor. And just like when Dukey-boy ran, you're not going to hear a lot of people say that racial prejudice will be a major factor in their choice.

It's an odd form of political jujitsu, Democrats turning the Republican Party's racists against them. In this era of take-no-prisoners campaigning, I'm glad to see Democrats getting dirty.

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