Reply #27: missing the point, perhaps.....

[Ardee]

Without wishing to put words in the mouths of others I understood the thread starter to be an indictment of the democratic party, its leadership and the candidates it puts forth rather than any comment on the wishes of the people of the USA.

All the statistics you cite mean little without a focus for voters to rally behind.There has been, for three solid years now, no real opposition to Bush from the democrats, excepting of course those isolated and eloquent speeches of Senator Byrd and a few sporadic comments from a couple of other dems here and there.No organised and concerted effort to expose the machinations, lies and manipulations of this administration exists within the democratic party, so how do you expect voters to be attracted to a party that basically agrees with Bush, if only by its silence?

The current democratic leadership has abandoned the electorate in favor of attracting corporate funding. There seems to me to be increasing disatisfaction within BOTH parties from those to the left of an increasing rightward moving center which leads me to believe that some sort of radical change in the nature of our two party system is in the offing.