As far as the PR and knowing your own audience goes, HUGE namesin country music (Tim McGraw & Faith Hill, Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, etc) are Democrats and still manage to jive with their mainly Red State audience without causing any kind of friction.
Toby and Tim esp are great at being *really* supportive of the troops (if I remember right from the Toby/Trace Akdins concert from the summer, which AWESOME, Toby's been on almost 20 USO tours) even if they aren't into how/why the troops are where they are.
If the Chicks *had* had some public counter PR measure (USO/something) they might have been able to sail through the "ashamed he's from Texas" firestorm. As it was, all their fans saw was Natalie going to Great Britian and bashing her country's eleted leader and follow up with a song about how she's not sorry, which is all very bad news bears because the group made such great music. :(
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Toby and Tim esp are great at being *really* supportive of the troops (if I remember right from the Toby/Trace Akdins concert from the summer, which AWESOME, Toby's been on almost 20 USO tours) even if they aren't into how/why the troops are where they are.
If the Chicks *had* had some public counter PR measure (USO/something) they might have been able to sail through the "ashamed he's from Texas" firestorm. As it was, all their fans saw was Natalie going to Great Britian and bashing her country's eleted leader and follow up with a song about how she's not sorry, which is all very bad news bears because the group made such great music. :(