Reply #167: Ok..here's my 2 cents (well, more like 20)

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First of all, Zogby is an anomaly. Most other polls show Hillary still a few points ahead. Second, all polls go up and down like this before an election...just ask poor Kerry! Third, if she really is lagging (as she certainly is in Florida) it represents a growing problem within the democratic party...a loyalty to party ideology rather than to a strong, forthright leader. As a pro-life socialist, I certainly have views that drastically cross party lines, as do about 35% of all Americans. Like it or not, rigid memeplexes like "liberalism" and "conservativism" inevitably won't grab a commanding majority. That's why Bush had to steal the election in 2000, and now that same problem has been passed on to Hillary. It's also an uphill battle against a population that really, really likes its guns, Jesus, and capitalism. There's a reason why Senator Bob Casey won so big in PA...he crossed party lines in a rational manner, and in doing so won by a huge margin.

The solution for Hillary: Remember that she only needs to hold the traditionanl blue states that Kerry held in 2004 (and given that he was a flip-flopping left wing ideologue running during wartime, forgive me if I say that if Hillary can't hold those same states she doesnt deserve to win!!) plus one more heavily populated swing state to take the EC. Right now, that state looks likely to be Ohio. Bill did well in the midwest, so I say most of the money and effort should be poured into campaigning in Ohio and possibly the shaky New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. The 50 state solution worked in 2006...it won't work in 2008. We can't count on revolution this time...Hill's appeal is too narrow for that. To quote an SNL sketch, we need "strategery" of our own. Oh, and to all the people here from Ohio, a little bit of gentle prosyletizing about the need for health care and education (the two places where dems have the most broad appeal) won't hurt either! Don't try to sell the whole party platform...play to things that a vast majority of Americans can agree on!

P.S. The really sad thing is that the democrats don't lack balls, they lack numbers...there just isn't enough of them in congress to pass the legislature that's needed. We really need to stand together right now, or we'll fall separately and it WILL be another 8 years of republican control.