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Showing Original Post only (View all)Today, We Would Control both Houses of Congress and the Presidency if [View all]
democrats and progressives had been as engaged in 2010 as they were in 2012.
If we don't keep working, the GOP is going to pick up seats in 2014 in both the House and the Senate.
How do we keep people motivated?
Remind them of the voter suppression attempts and long lines?
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Pryderi
Nov 2012
OP
WTF? So the agenda radically changed in the last two years from Obama's first two years?
stevenleser
Nov 2012
#11
And this changed in 2012 how? If you are claiming the President did something bad before 2010
stevenleser
Nov 2012
#30
Maybe he changed or, and I think this more likely, the clown car candidates scared people out of
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#45
I suppose you actually believe that so I'm not going to bother writing a list for you. n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#71
Tim Geithner at Treasury. Rahm Emanuel & the Public Option. The escalation of Afghanistan....
Junkdrawer
Nov 2012
#21
You really believe that the additional voters that showed up were thinking that?
stevenleser
Nov 2012
#40
There is a much simpler explanation. 2008 featured the excitement of the first black President
stevenleser
Nov 2012
#41
Yeah. That worked out well. Now we are in hand to hand combat with a bunch of fucking neanderthals,
bluestate10
Nov 2012
#50
Exactly my point. If Dems had been as engaged and passionate in 2010, Repugs would NOT have been
Pryderi
Nov 2012
#9
We need to have a sustained march to take over State Houses and Governor mansions.
bluestate10
Nov 2012
#51
A national push for more people to get involved could definitely help with that.
LeftInTX
Nov 2012
#62
Yep. I've attended trainings at DFA and Camp Wellstone and was a PCP trainer for my county party
Pryderi
Nov 2012
#18
Your post is a textbook example of how some folks see what they want to see in a post.
stevenleser
Nov 2012
#12
There are a number of folks that can get behind Democratic personalities but are for TeaPubliKlan
TheKentuckian
Nov 2012
#17
That is the job of the DNC. Earlier this year I was asked to bid for a delegate spot at the
bluestate10
Nov 2012
#57
The Supreme Court is fixing to strike down The Voting Rights Act. Is that "sexy" enough?
dogknob
Nov 2012
#53
I won't come to that conclusion yet. Remember Health Care? All of us thought it was dead when
bluestate10
Nov 2012
#58
We need a DNC that does work other than collect donations. The DNC has the job is keeping
bluestate10
Nov 2012
#59