Reply #55: Sorry for the bad temper on previous post, youngred

[Rockerdem]

I was carrying over a little anger from a post higher up on the thread that argued that we have to use Rove-like techniques.

If you analyze the recent elections, the problem is twofold. Long term, we have lost blue collar votes by losing focus on their needs. This last election, we lost enough women due to their uneasiness about world violence against Americans.

In both cases, they were lost, not because our hearts werent in the right place, but because our message was muddled and unfocused. We spent too much of the general election season reacting to smears or telling voters about K/E's biography. That's not what blue collar voters want. They are simple (in the best meaning) people who respond to two or three issues. Instead, weve been complex, or, like this year, scattered. Just one example: what WAS our position about the war?

This wont be fixed by being clever, but by being honest, simple, repetitive, and not distracted. If so, the message will get through the dishonesty of the media whores, regardless of how hard they hammer our candidate. Average people like simplicity and determination. Lets give it to them for a change, not some Roveian, Strangelovian copy.