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In reply to the discussion: Karl Rove: GOP Needs To Copy Howard Dean’s 50 State Strategy [View all]DFW
(54,367 posts)15. I'm in touch with Howard a lot
He happens to be a personal friend. I posted a few days ago about something really cool he was doing right at this moment, and got exactly zero responses.
Four years is a glacial age in politics.
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And they need to be instantly squashed like bugs wherever they appear.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Nov 2012
#1
I worry about 2014. Democratic voters tend to disappear in off year elections. Repugs already have
Pryderi
Nov 2012
#5
if repugs keep up with their whole obstruction of democracy thing- voters WILL come out in 2014.
BlueMan Votes
Nov 2012
#34
Over the last century, the party in power at the federal level tends to lose power in the states
davidn3600
Nov 2012
#42
I don't think it will happen this time. The Dems are smelling the blood in the water and
kelliekat44
Nov 2012
#44
As you can see by my post count, I'm not a chatty cathy, but I did enjoy reading it.
justice1
Nov 2012
#38
Who else had the cajones to say this...everyone else danced around it, Dean said it.
EmeraldCityGrl
Nov 2012
#23
I can tell you that here in NY republicans do not break 35% anymore, and Thank God for it.
hrmjustin
Nov 2012
#26
I think he's wrong. The republicans did quite well in 2010 even in historically blue states.
JVS
Nov 2012
#29
No, they need to grow a conscience and start treating people like human beings instead of "moochers"
melody
Nov 2012
#33
Uh, wouldn't that mean moving to a platform that doesn't suck the ass of the dead?
HughBeaumont
Nov 2012
#47