What's clear is that Democratic Party messaging is woefully inadequate

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74. he's not obscure to me

I happen to live in Kansas (not that I had ever heard about Bob until he died.) Plus, it is not like I follow Republican politicians.

Our messaging throws a lot of hate at the voters. If we want to win them with our messaging, it is better to avoid that hate. One of the messages that the GOP sells is "liberal elites think they are better than you" and often it is US, we are the ones who help to sell that message.

Our party certainly did a good job selling its message in 2008. So what went wrong between 2008 and 2010? Citizen's United? Probably a big part of it. We cannot get a message out if they have the megaphones. I mean, I thought that I had a good message. My campaign was based on three points 1. Reaganomics has failed. 2. Unless you are in the top 5%, Republican politicans are not representing you, 3. we are in a Bush recession. Yet I could not even sell that message to Democratic voters. At least not enough of them to win a primary election. I spent $700 or so on newspaper ads the week before the election, even advertising all week in the Topeka paper, including their election edition, and still 400 people went to the polls in Topeka and didn't vote for ANYBODY in my race. It takes money to get a message out, and then your message needs to fit what the people with money want it to be. So that is a huge hurdle for anybody with a message that wants to fight the money-powers.