Memo to Campaigns

Word on the street... (0.00 / 0)

says this poll is exactly right. Among people who definitely vote, they are looking at candidates who will rescue the country from what Bush's policies have done to it. Be that candidate. Please. Please.


It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.  

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by: Rosi Efthim @ Wed Aug 30, 2006 at 15:33:56 PM UTC

BAM! Stender On The Curve (0.00 / 0)

Click to see the whole literature piece.

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by: huntsu @ Wed Aug 30, 2006 at 16:52:50 PM UTC

Bob Menendez Needs To... (0.00 / 0)

Go on the offensive on the national security/terrorism issues.

Republicans have gotten away with political MURDER by implying that Democrats are weak on these issues simply because we question Bush's failed policies. 

Worse yet, Republican surrogates have gotten away with political murder, rape, and torture by successfully tainting any who see through Bush's naked failures as being somehow unpatriotic at best and a terrorist sympathizer at worst.

Sure, that Coulter/Limbaugh/O'Reilly/Hannity crap sounds utterly insane to us; but rest assured, it bleeds through from Fox et al through to the general public.  All it takes is for a small per centage to believe it and for another small per centage to be influenced by it.  THAT'S WHY KERRY LOST!!!  (aside from the points stolen in Ohio due to fraud/suppression etc).

Going on the offensive means pointing out ongoing relentless challenges to Junior to either repudiate Bush or to explain why he agrees with his miserably failed policies.

Frankly, the polls should be no where as close as they are.  If Menendez (and the Democrats in general) start truly going on OFFENSE; 2006 will be a historic sweep across the board.

Yes, the Republican theft machine may shave a few points off our totals in some states...but a proper exposure of the bitter ugly toxic "fruits" of their miserably failed policies will yield wins by margins large enought to overcome the theft.

We Democrats have to start being as accessible, compelling, muscular and dramatic in the way we tell the TRUTH as Republicans have been in telling lies.

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by: Nick Lento @ Fri Sep 01, 2006 at 04:12:30 AM UTC

Focus on domestic economic issues (0.00 / 0)

The Democratic Party DRASTICALLY needs to turn much more serious attention to the bread and butter issues facing common working people every day.  This means taking the side of working people and not straddling the line between corporations and workers.  (1) Specific proposals must be taken to stop the flow of jobs out of the US.  For example, there needs to be a tax on all non-sales jobs taken out of the US by non-US countries.  (2) Save Social Security and Medicare (3) Access to health care by 100%, not 95%.  95% doesn't cut it if you're one of those 5%.  Access to health care independently of one's employment.  (4) Employment law that is favorable to workers - end "at will" employment, workplace bullying, "contract" employment that can be ended at any time, the flow of workers from one temporary job to another, mergers that result in thousands of people being laid off and no extra profitability to the companies (5) inflation: specifically, how to stop it - housing prices, gas prices - people can't maintain the lifestyle they had even seven years ago.  Recently I heard a speech by New Mexico Congressonal candidate Patricia Madrid.  She started by lambasting the Bush plan to have private collection agencies go after people who are late on their taxes while reducing the staff that audits the wealthiest.  She said that she, as Attorney General, prosecutes such agencies for the way they treat working people.  Now there was a real speech by a real Democrat!  Obviously in touch with small business owners' reality.  What happened to that Friendly IRS that helped people with their tax calculations and payment plans?

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by: proud2Bliberal @ Fri Sep 01, 2006 at 11:58:03 AM UTC