Remember George Bailey?

[Jackpine Radical]

12. Wow, you're onto something here!

This is EXACTLY what the Dems need to do. Ever since Reagan, the Republicans seem to have cornered the market on powerful anecdotes and word pictures, while the Dems have retreated into wonkish statistics and global generalities.

Welfare Cadillac versus 47 million uninsured. Why Johnny Can't Read versus declining SAT scores.

It's the concrete, human-level stories and images that stick in people's minds and shift their thinking, not the cold numbers.

That brilliant little scene of yours could be done in about a minute, and would be absolute dynamite in its effect on the viewers.

Mitt as Scrooge.

Robber barons.

The evil banker foreclosing on the widow.

The Common Man as hero. Tom Joad.

All that stuff is there in the collective unconscious; it's time to activate it.