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Questions For Emanuel (0.00 / 0)

1. Newsweek said you don't plan to spend any money on ads highlighting the abortion issue.  Yet all indicators are that this is now a good issue for Democrats: Republicans are running away from the South Dakota abortion ban, and SD's governor's approval dropped 14 points after he signed the ban.  Do you now plan to do any advertising at all calling attention to the dangers of bans like South Dakota's (which most Americans disapprove of) or asking Republicans whether they support a total abortion ban?

2. Whereas the Republicans have developed a message machine for calling attention to Democrats' embarrassing comments (and forcing the Dems to apologize), it seems to me the Democrats don't have the same capability.  For example, John Boehner recently said that Senator Feingold was more concerned about the safety of terrorists than the American people -- yet nobody really called attention to this slander until The Daily Show last night.  Do you have any plans on how to get the Republicans' more outrageous or horrible statements (and there are a lot of them) into the media and force Republican candidates to distance themselves from them?

3. Why is there so much reluctance on the part of Democrats to break the "ethics truce" and file ethics complaints against Republicans?  What do you say to the fear of some bloggers that the Republicans might jump the gun and start filing ethics complaints against Democrats (in order to confuse the issue of which is really the "corrupt" party)?

4. The Duckworth/Cegelis primary showed that a candidate with good grassroots operation and online support (Cegelis) can come very close to winning.  Have you set up any mechanisms for working with grassroots/netroots organizations and harnessing their capabilities, the way Republicans work with church groups and so on?

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by: ManfredArm @ Thu Mar 23, 2006 at 17:48:20 PM UTC

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Doubt if Rahm is setting up any serious "mechanisms" for working with the grassroots, but here in IL many progressives and such have a target on his ass! ;)

Just Another Souless atheist in Search of World Peace and Harmony

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by: Kankakee Voice @ Fri Mar 24, 2006 at 03:46:39 AM UTC

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Iraq (0.00 / 0)

Why are you opposed to Jack Murtha's plan?

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by: Matt Stoller @ Fri Mar 24, 2006 at 14:45:58 PM UTC

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When he gives the Republican answer I can follow up with:
Is that a Democratic answer?

Media In Trouble

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by: Media In Trouble @ Fri Mar 24, 2006 at 20:38:38 PM UTC

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