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Top pols awash in funny money

While big-time Clinton bagman Norman Hsu awaits his fate in California on fraud charges, federal authorities in New York have launched an investigation into a Sikh family that donated to a variety of political causes. Singh Sabharwal, a prominent member of New York’s Sikh community, and two of his grown sons have been charged with mortgage fraud for buying real estate, reselling it to fictional buyers for inflated prices and taking out larger mortgages. The two children have been arrested and Sabharwal is currently being sought in India. Recipients include an exceedingly odd couple: Demo Sen. Chuck Schumer and the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

Meanwhile, the scope of Hsu’s donations has become public. Since 2004, Hsu donated $260,000 to Democrats Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, John Kerry, Dianne Feinstein and Bill Richardson, et al. No word yet on whether they plan to return Hsu’s tainted cash as Hillary Clinton’s campaign did last week.

Campaign trail: Demos to dump ‘Bubba’?

A recent article on the lefty website Salon.com mused about whether Democrats have given up pursuing the white-male vote. Known as “bubba” or the “NASCAR dad” to leftist Yankee elites, white males have shrunk as an overall proportion of the Democrat presidential vote since 1988. From Michael Dukakis through John Kerry, Demo presidential candidates have averaged about 35 percent of the white-male vote, and in none of those elections, including Bill “Bubba” Clinton’s 1992 and 1996 pluralities, could the Democrats count on white males to put them over the top.

Salon points out that Democrat dominance of the black vote and other minority voting blocs offsets the loss of the white-male vote, leading to the conclusion that not only do Democrats need not pursue white males to achieve victory, but they may decide to ignore them altogether. As Rush Limbaugh pointed out after reviewing Salon’s hit piece, this new circumstance feeds nicely into the elite liberal view that white males are the root of all evil. Of course, we in our Tennessee editorial shop can’t imagine any self-respecting, freedom-loving, God-fearing American of any color or gender voting for the likes of Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, Ted Kennedy or Nancy Pelosi.