You Need To Stop

[Ken Burch]

262. The events are related by a common strategy:

In every case, the strategy was to let the right set the terms of debate, to avoid making a clear case for progressive policies, to present the ticket as "centrist" and hope the voters will elect the ticket by default because the other ticket is seen as "too extreme"-while, at the same time, telling progressive voters that they HAD to vote for our ticket because the other ticket was dangerous.

The other option, running a positive campaign that gives the voters the chance of voting FOR us, rather than against the other ticket-a strategy we could have used with THIS ticket and this platform, a great platform that was essentially never mentioned in the fall campaign, or at least not in the televised ads. It's the strategy that elected Barack Obama twice with majority support in the popular vote.

I'm as angry as you are about this result and about 2000. It's just that I support a different strategy for regaining the White House and Congress and the state legislatures than you do.

I believe we can win by actually winning the argument-because our policies are good and will genuinely help people if implemented.