Democrats wake up and use talk radio!

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This is not from me, it is from a local liberal, Democrat, ABB, talk
show host and radio station owner. He said he gets 3-4 calls every
week from the state and local representatives of the Bush campaign and
has yet to be contacted by anyone from the Kerry campaign. Even when
Kerry made a stop locally a few weeks ago he heard nothing. Every week
the state and local Bush people make the talk show circuit in this area. They can't say all the talk shows are conservatives, we have
shows here in the Wheeling,WV area that are liberal or at least
moderates. There are also liberals on Pittsburgh radio station KDKA
that is a 50000 watt non-Clear Channel station. I agree with him when he said Kerry hasn't given the swing voter a reason to vote for him other than "I am not Bush". That may work for us but for the average person that doesn't follow the current events that closely it doesn't
give them a compelling reason to vote for Kerry. Where are our local,
state, and national surrogates for Kerry? Ohio, West Virginia and
and Pennsylvania are all critical states for the election!

[JI7]

1. maybe he will as we get closer to election time

or right after the convention.

[Raenelle]

2. I heard Kerry yesterday on the Ed Schultz show

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3. The point the man was trying to make is that the Democrat party

has no local organization out working in support of Kerry. He said he
gave a talk to the DNC a few years ago on the subject and it fell on deaf ears. In this area the state representative for the Bush campaign
and the local one who happens to be a WV State Rep. are out talking up Bush and spreading the word about Kerry's flip-flops weekly. The people we need to convert are the swing voters not the ABB's. Our
elected officials Federal, state and local should be out beating the bushes for votes also. Or are they afraid to support him, figuring
he is just an also ran like Dukakis was. This is from a Liberal talk show host that is on our side who follows and knows more about politics than I claim to.

[Gold Metal Flake]

4. GRASS ROOTS!! Does that phrase still have meaning?

Local talk radio stations should be on page one of lists of places for Dem candidates to visit in any state.

Local radio station owners should also make the cadidiates very aware of their desire to have the candidates on. By that I mean, bug them relentlessly. We must make them work for us, remember?

[ibegurpard]

5. This is a great opportunity for people who believe the Democratic Party

has abandoned their values. You can fill the void YOURSELF, without waiting for official party pronouncements, thus helping to create public consensus that the party will then be forced to accommodate.