Talk About Burying The Lede. [draft]

From a POLITICO story on an RNC fundraising scheme in which the party sends out documentation that pretends to be from the U.S. Census:

“Of course, duping people is the point. … That’s one of the reasons why it works so well,” said one Republican operative familiar with the program, who said it’s among the RNC’s most lucrative fundraising initiatives. “They will likely mail millions this year [with] incredible targeting.”

It’s worth pointing out that the people most likely to be “duped” by this are the over-65 voters that tend to lean Republican most strongly.

There’s your slogan for 2010: The GOP, hustling old white folks for as long as we can remember.

— A. Serwer