unless we GOTV, and especially with regard to women and minorities, we will have trouble retaining

[Savannahmann]

14. Tell me what the Democrats are campaigning on?

Tell me the campaign strategy. I can summarize it if you're unfamiliar with it. Pray that the other guy screws up.

To get people to vote against someone, you have to demonstrate that the someone is a problem. If they are well briefed enough that they can refrain from saying stupid things like "real rape" then you're work is really cut out.

The alternative, the one that has worked historically, is to give someone a reason to vote FOR you. That means you have to campaign on principles, and on at least a touch of populist idealism. Then, here is the tricky part, you have to govern with those principles, and that touch of populist idealism.

For example, more than half the people believe that Marijuana should be legalized. Now, I can count the Democratic politicians at the national level on one hand that have come out for this. So half the people feel that way, and none of our elected leaders do. So vote for us, we're just like them on this issue. Nice ring to it, a little long on the bumper sticker though.

OK, let's talk militarized police. More than half the people think it's gone too far. But Democrats afraid of being called soft on crime line up to support this crap.

Perhaps the people are with us on the NSA and really reforming the whole Military Industrial Intelligence Cabal. Actually the people are with those of us on DU, but not so much the Elected Democrats.

So Democrats are running on issues from the RW, and hoping somehow to win the election by pretending to be almost as conservative as the RW. So the reason to vote FOR Democrats is because you are against Republicans. TO the average voter, the Republicans are just another party, and judging from the performance of the Democratic Party this election cycle, that's not too far from the truth. Look at the posts here calling for GOTV efforts. Vote for us, we're the blue team. The Red team is really bad, or something.

We don't stand for anything, we don't carry out the desires of the people, and we continue the same policies that the other guys did when they were in power. We mouth words about being concerned about the middle class and the poor, and utterly ignore them as we make sure that our wall street friends are protected. We break our promise to the Hispanics, and tell them they owe it to us, and themselves, to vote and stop the Republicans from screwing them worse than we do.

So our plan was to wait for them to screw up, and if they didn't, well we'll blame someone else for it. That's not a campaign plan, that's the prayer of every idiot buying a lottery ticket. Please god, let me win.