needs to start immediately. We have to target all the vulnerable districts around the country and begin to identify serious Dem candidates in those districts soon and get them out in the open and known. The same should be happening in those districts that were gerrymandered in favor of the Repugs. We also need to protect all the current seats we have so that they can't be picked off.

We need to get our candidates out there on the campaign trail immediately and they have to begin to make noise and get press in their districts and point fingers every time the current Repug House and their local Representative do anything to obstruct and obfuscate anything PBO does to move this country forward. This is how they will come to notoriety in their district and by the real beginning of the race for the House as it starts in 2013 they will have jump-started their campaign.

The same support staff that directed PBO's campaign to win his 2nd term needs to be retained and put to work immediately on taking back the House. They are currently in all those districts and have a good handle on the demographics and the changing demographics over the next two years and should be able to devise a detailed plan for each district for taking it back to the Dems.

Again this needs to start immediately if we want to take back the House.

We need to protect of collective.

If you were involved in 2008, you were contacted to come to meetings and to do organizational work throughout the years that followed the first election.

Here, in Chicago, my local OFA chapter was still operative. We were called upon several times to do work for the health care law, including rallying in front of then-Representative Melissa Bean's office to convince this Democrat in a very red district to vote in favor of the ACA. (She did, and lost her seat to Joe Walsh in 2012.) We were also called by one of the other OFA offices, on the north side, to make GOTV calls to Massachusetts for Martha Coakley. (We did, and could tell she was in big trouble from the angry Democrats we spoke to.) We also went to a few organizational meetings, but it was a tad lame at the time.

OFA offices will probably be very involved in helping move the fiscal cliff issue, by urging constituents to call their representatives; as well as other legislative initiatives.