Reply #34: I honestly believe that can be countered... with enough time and enough

[salin]

people.

Get a whole lot of like minded folks together - and start polling folks informally - about what concerns them the most. Find where the real fear/concern that touches their daily lives. Ten to one it isn't gay people - but closer to home... like, putting food on the table. Try to canvass more than 100 folks (even 1000 would be better) - but don't go out with precanned questions - be open and write it all down.

Then do research on how DeMint stands in relationship to these real issues. Then frame some arguments that lay out the issues of concern vs the issues of DeMint. Heck you may even be able to defuse the "Gay" issues - by putting that in the mix... the ... while DeMint spends time and money on this - which effects almost noone - he is silent on X... and instead panders to special interest lobbyists and supports THEIR agenda rather then serving the needs of his constiuents.

Too many folks rely on outside strategists - when it can be done locally. From not guessing about what is of real concern - but going out and getting it down on paper - and then building from there.

The Clintons were ridiculed by the right for relying on polls on issues. But they found tht the public was much less concerned about "taxes" than other issues - and thus was able to do the "target tax cut" thing which involved raising some taxes, and using cuts/breaks as incentives for corporations and individuals to "behave" in certain ways considered to be for the public good - for example a tax break for certain kinds of R&D deemed needed (we could do this in the alternative energy arena - and get much more accomplished than just giving all energy and oil cos all sorts of breaks and hoping that they might serve the public good along the way).

I really don't believe that the republicans have a lock on all districts.