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End the Savage RW Tearing Apart of America and her People~
Cha
(297,100 posts)er!
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)increasing Social Security payments, repealing the Bush tax cuts, ending "free" trade agreements...
Can you imagine if elected Democrats wanted those things, too? The mid-term elections would take three days to complete, the lines would be so long.
Rex
(65,616 posts)They mostly sold us out in 2010;
Vote by Ideology
Total
Democrat Republican Other/No Answer
Liberal (20%)
90%
8%
2%
Moderate (38%)
55%
42%
3%
Conservative (42%)
13%
84%
3%
Of course liberals voted in huge numbers for Dems.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2010/results/polls/#USH00p1
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)- more -
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/606/transcript.html
Wendy Davis is pro-choice, but pro-gun. Should Democrats withhold their support?
The 50-state strategy carried a lot of blue dogs to Congress.
Howard Dean, vindicated
Those early days must have been painful for the former Vermont governor still smarting back then from his presidential primary defeat and that endlessly looped scream video and he endured a barrage of snarks and snipes from the Democratic congressional leadership as well. Unfortunately for Dean, he doesnt play the Washington press corps nearly as well as do rivals like Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., who ran the House Democrats campaign committee, or Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who performed the same role in the Senate.
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Breaking that advantage would be costly and difficult, as Dean well realized, but it had to be done someday, or the Democrats would fulfill Karl Roves dream of becoming a permanent minority party or fading away altogether. Against the counsel of party professionals, whose long losing streak has done little to diminish their influence, the new chairman began the process of re-creating the Democratic Party in 2005. And contrary to the gossip and subsequent press reports, he succeeded in raising $51 million last year, about 20 percent more than in 2003 and a party record for an off year.
Much of that money was spent in ways that obviously paid off on Tuesday, including the 2005 election of Democratic Gov. Tim Kaine in Virginia where Jim Webbs upset victory over incumbent Sen. George Allen overturned Republican control of the Senate. Several million dollars was spent on rebuilding the partys national voter files, yet another essential sector in which the Republicans have enormous technological superiority.
- more -
http://www.salon.com/2006/11/10/dean_dems/
You can see the candidates won the House and Senate in 2006:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2006#Seats_that_changed_party
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2006#Race_summary
A lot of them lost in 2010. I have to admit that I was glad to see Jason Altmire lose.
http://my.democrats.org/page/event/detail/4jg8j
Jim Webb, who retired in 2012, was also no great loss. The two current Senators from VA are of a similar mold.
The other thread will sink. LOL!
Cha
(297,100 posts)again tying in with the upcoming 2014 Midterms. Howard Dean had it correct.
This will sink in GD unless I keep Kicking. Which I plan to do.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)means governorships and other offices.
Republicans control 25 of the 39 elected secretaries of State, but the top targets for both parties are in presidential battleground states. There are open seats in Iowa, Colorado and Nevada, where incumbent secretaries are running for higher office; in Ohio, where secretaries have played key roles in presidential election voting decisions since at least 2004, Republican incumbent Jon Husted is being challenged by Democratic state Sen. Nina Turner.
- more -
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/02/19/secretary-of-state-pac/5575097/
Cha
(297,100 posts)in these secretary of state offices.
Good Luck to Nina Turner in Ohio!
flamingdem
(39,312 posts)Thanks for this!!
flamingdem
(39,312 posts)because in spite of it all people will stay home!
So how will people be convinced that they have a stake in the outcome?
Well, let's grab this like a dog w bone and not let go, this should be our theme til November
Take Back the House!
Cha
(297,100 posts)Mahalo~
flamingdem
(39,312 posts)I remember the midterms at our community college, many students were not even aware of where to go. It took 15 minutes per to make headway. Little by little!
Cha
(297,100 posts)to be better prepared in November and leading up to it.
sheshe2
(83,721 posts)Vote as if your life depended on it. This is because it does.
If any Democrat sits back and withholds their vote, then they only have themselves to blame.
GOTV2014!
Thanks Cha!
Cha
(297,100 posts)I thought this Graphic was especially illuminating.. with the Republicon Vote in the Senate Against the Veteran Benefits being tied to more Sanctions in Iran. I'm sorry I didn't know that.
neverforget
(9,436 posts)Democrats and Republicans were at parity in self-identification nationally, 36-36 percent, a return to the close division seen in years before 2008, when it broke dramatically in the Democrats' favor, 40-33 percent.
Swing-voting independents who, as usual, made the difference, favored Republicans for House by a thumping 16 points, 55-39 percent. Compare that to Obama's 8-point win among independents in 2008. It was the Republicans' biggest win among independents in exit polls dating to 1982 (by two points. The GOP won independents by 14 points in 1994, the last time they took control of the House.)
Sixty percent of whites backed Republican House candidates, the most in exit polls dating back to 1982. (In presidential rather than House vote Ronald Reagan won more whites in 1984).
Cha
(297,100 posts)neverforget
(9,436 posts)middle. Our message needs to resonate with them whatever that is.
Cha
(297,100 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Instead of the democratic party selling itself out in order to woo a bunch of apathetic flakes who can't decide until they enter the booth - and then vote based on who has nicest hair - why not spend more time activating their supposed "base" among liberals.
The "independents and undecideds" often cite an inability to tell what a politician's values and positions really are as the reason they hold out. They're the big harbor of the notion that "the parties are the same." You want to move them? Move left. Take real positions. If htey don't like it, we didn't want them anyway.
adirondacker
(2,921 posts)neverforget
(9,436 posts)2008 & 2012 because we had a message that was somewhat liberal. I say we go with a liberal message instead of running from our values.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)I'm confused.
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)Thecwill of the American people on most issues is being denied. From minimum wage to infrastructure and jobs bills.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Cha
(297,100 posts)Cheese4TheRat
(107 posts)I always hear the claims, usually used to blame progressives for 2010, but I have to see statistics that back up the claims.
merrily
(45,251 posts)But, whoever stayed home, he or she should go to the polls.
Cheese4TheRat
(107 posts)However, I do not believe the turn out in 2010 was all that different than 2006. Certainly it was lower than 2008, but that is always the case, and is an invalid comparison.
merrily
(45,251 posts)However, I do not believe the turn out in 2010 was all that different than 2006. Certainly it was lower than 2008, but that is always the case, and is an invalid comparison.
I don't want to speak for the OP, but I thought the historical point the OP was making was about midterm elections. Of course, I could always be wrong, but that was my take.
merrily
(45,251 posts)Beartracks
(12,806 posts)It cannot be said enough: NOT voting in the mid-terms is an outright abdication.
It sends the message: please, Republicans, we want you to decide our fates.
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Cha
(297,100 posts)everything you've been doing with filibusters and your voting record in the House and Senate is just fine with us. Not even.
mcar
(42,298 posts)Has never been more important than now. In 2010 thousands of Florida teachers didn't vote in the gubernatorial race, according to the teacher's union. We've been stuck with Scott and a far right legislature that has butchered public education, not to mention the other atrocities.
There will never be a perfect candidate. But, as President Obama has said, "let's not let the perfect be the enemy of the good."
When Democrats vote, Democrats win. It's that simple.
Cha
(297,100 posts)in 2010? They can't be happy with themselves now.
Well, Since nobody's perfect.