Reply #22: I take issue with the idea that the Dem party

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can't mount effective and sophisticated marketing and messaging. The DLC does it extremely well all the time.
And the Obama marketing campaign was incredibly savvy, sophisticated, organized and disciplined.


"… The Obama campaign was named Advertising Age’s marketer of the year for 2008 and edged out runners-up Apple and Zappos.com. Take it from the professionals. Brand Obama is a marketer’s dream. (...)"

http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/17984

We've seen it can be done, and how it's done.


It takes money, but more than that, desire and a much firmer sense of direction. The first thing we need to do is stop funding the organizations and politicians hostile to progressives and start putting it to better uses. We need to decide and begin agreeing on what those are.