--Gerrymandering and election rigging efforts (such as what has just been voted down in VA). I still think we need to take a hard look at this. How and why this is being done and what we can do to overcome it as best we can. The federal govt needs to be able to intercede in the states when this is done to pervert the intent of the law IMO. I think it needs to stop being used as a strategy.
--About cross-over voting. Where I live only Independents can cross over. So how do you get enough Independents to do that? That would be harder than getting Dems to do it. (And how you do that I don't know). It just seems easier to me to put the effort into supporting good Dems. I understand the urgency but using unethical Repub tactics is pretty distasteful. It seems kind of archaic, not really progressive.
--The guy in SC was Alvin Green. Didn't that backfire a bit?
--Right, Frances Marion the Swamp Fox--(looks like Mel Gibson did the Braveheart version--I don't really identify with "an 18th century Rambo"
...LOL 
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"The 2000 movie The Patriot exaggerated the Swamp Fox legend for a whole new generation. Although Francis Marion led surprise attacks against the British, and was known for his cunning and resourcefulness, Mel Gibson played The Patriot's Marion-inspired protagonist as an action hero. "One of the silliest things the movie did," says Sean Busick, a professor of American history at Athens State University in Alabama, "was to make Marion into an 18th century Rambo." (Smithsonian)
PS--Yes it's going to be a dirty war. Rethuglicons will lie, cheat, and steal. And we do not have nearly enough protections against that.
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