Another General Election cycle, another Democratic Party loss.

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11. Sorry, but that's my point

and just because I'm not from Kentucky doesn't mean that I don't care about what is going to happen to the good people of Kentucky.

My point is that there is no coherent national strategy from the Democratic Party to stop, or at least slow the bleeding from all of these local and state losses.

At the local level, you have over 2,000 radio stations that do nothing all day on election day than advertise polling places, where to vote, who to vote for, and the Republicans, crazy as we may think they are, are winning everywhere from Dog Catcher, to School Board to Governor.

Where do you think the "bench" comes from moving forward? How many current member's of the House and Senate began their political careers as School Board members?

Democrats run the risk of being so "righteous" in their "righteousness" that they miss the forest for the trees.

About 90% of our daily lives are influenced by LOCAL GOVERNMENT!

If folks don't start getting out and winning some of these local elections, there will be no bench of good Democratic candidates going forward.

It's like the national strategy seems to be to just wait until the older middle class white voters die out, or turn things over to the T-Baggers so people will see how horrible a mistake that is. Neither is a very sound strategy.

I'll give you an example of how it works. John Boehner is "hated" by the right-wing in his party, but you know what? If he was running again, THEY'D GET OUT AND VOTE FOR HIM and he'd win handedly. And it's not "just" because of redistricting. It's because no matter how much they loathe Boehner, they'd come out and vote in force for him, because to do otherwise would be to give his seat to a party they view as EVIL.

Sometimes, I wish Democratic voters had just half the passion and hatred for the Republican Party as the Republicans have for the Democratic Party.