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In reply to the discussion: How can we get a progressive presidential candidate at the top of Democratic ticket in 2016? [View all]Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)The PTB have us convinced that you can't run a candidacy and you certainly can't win an election without money. However, this has been proven wrong time and again. The most recent example that comes to mind is the Jerry Brown/Meg Whitman race for the governorship of California. Meg outspent Jerry by a 3:1 margin and she still lost her ass. Lots of examples of this.
Here's the other thing. Howard Dean never did have mega bucks -- his support was mostly from grassroots supporters. We worked the whole Central California area for Dean in 2003 and the first part of 2004 and had ENORMOUS support. We were enormously successful without the Big Boy support and that could be said throughout the country. UNFORTUNATELY, between the anti-Dean commercials put on my Kerry, Gebhardt and Edwards comparing him to Saddam Hussein and the fake "Dean scream," unfortunately, he pulled out way too early. NOW we know to ensure the candidates pledge to stay in to the end before we endorse anyone. Yes, it can be done.
The LAST thing we need to do is to continue to do the things we've always done -- thereby ending up with the 1%'s choice of a candidate. The progressives won't go along this time, I GUARANTEE that.