WE WIN ONE
Dems picked up a seaton Dec 3 in a Louisiana district Bush won by 58%.
We're gonna need a lot of these. It's a long road ahead.
There were two seats up in Louisiana. In one, the Dems were bitterly divided and lost. In the other, the Reps were bitterly divided and lost. Why does this come as no surprise?
That's why I'm glad to see John Kerry acting like a candidate. When we come as close as we did last November, why the hell wouldn't you run the same play again? The voters really only got to know him for about six months, which is why Team Bush was able to exploit anxiety about who he was, what he stands for, and what he would do. Every Dem in the country was for Kerry in October; now it seems that every Dem is against him.
I say we're better off with the devil we know, esp. if we can settle on a candidate early, the way the GOP did, John McCain nothwitstanding, in 2000. The 2008 GOP nomination could be a real brawl; if we just KEEP our act together (we already got it together in 2004), we should be well-poised for victory.
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When we have a special election, where the focus is ONLY on that election, (and here in Kentucky we have had three special elections in 2004) we WIN them. But when we get aggregated into the great pool of god, gays, and gun bashing we don't do so well. At least in rural states. There has to be an approach other than abandoning the rural democrats.
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