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Trinity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 06:09 PM
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Post-Election Strategy Memo, Part One
Post-Election Strategy Memo, Part One
by Chris Bowers

As many books as we write about them, our enemy is not Bill O'Reilly, or Rush Limbaugh, or even George Bush. Further, as much griping as we may do about them over the next few months, our problem is not Terry McAuliffe, or Bob Shrum, or any of our candidates. Individuals are neither our enemy, nor our problem. Instead, our enemy and our problem is conservatism itself. Yesterday, John Kerry won among self-described Independents and "moderates" by greater margins than George Bush won among the nation as a whole. Yesterday, we improved on our 2000 vote by 10%, more than twice the 4.7% increase in the national population since 2000. Our activism kicked ass. Our ability to appeal to the center kicked ass. Our problem is that we are in the minority. Our mistake would be to start blaming individuals and creating scapegoats.


The rest at http://www.mydd.com/story/2004/11/3/175014/911


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usrbs Donating Member (583 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 06:25 PM
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1. Great post. I agree with every word. Unfortunately, I also agree with
Moderatw=e's reply.
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Trinity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 06:44 PM
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2. yeah, that reply was pretty heavy
and a good read...


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