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Now hiring, 2012.

I'm serious. Please run. I can't. I have too much crap on the internet that would bite me, too many quotes can be dug up, but I know a lot of you post anonymously, and many of you say you are progressives. If you live in a district that is right leaning, run! If you have a right leaning Democrat that you dislike, run as a Democrat! Let's get DU Dems to run, use DU as a platform, even. Tell the mods to delete your account and sign up with your name (you aren't allowed to have two accounts, but they might let it slide if you ask, I dunno).

Downsides: your life will be scrutinized, felonies and whatnot will be dredged up, divorce proceedings and stuff like that maybe, you'll have to be careful with what you say, at least until you're elected. If you don't care about reelection (and you shouldn't) I would encourage you to not give a shit after that point. Campaigning is hard, you think canvasing is hard, campaign is 10x as hard.

Every year hundreds of people run, most of them are "establishment" people who were either on the local town councils (and let's be serious, nepotism and cronyism starts there) or who have local wealth (rich guy with the hardware chain store, etc). It cannot hurt the democratic process for people, who are willing, and who are politically motivated and hard workers, to just give it a shot. Even if the cronyism is deep and you're rejected by the local establishment, it will at least give people pause, particularly if you get a lot of votes.

Nader was wrong about the Presidency. It's Congress that matters.