Now is the time to Nationalize the 2006 elections

[Perky]

We have a do-nothing Congress who has for ten years promised us reform and all we have gotten is pork and huge budget deficits.

We have a hugely unpopular president with an even more unpopular war.

We have Oil and profits and health insurenace profits at record highs which are bread and butter pocketbook issues for 90% of the american public.

We have off year elections in the incumbents 6th year.

THis is a campaign perfect storm folks.

THis really needs to be nationalized. I am not usre about the senate but the House is takable. If we natioanlize the election around Hastert sticking his head in the sand while the Texas Mafia runs thr ountry into the ditch.

We need to take the congress on full tilt.

Unfortunately, we do not have a national spokesman capable of artuculating an alternative message without in the next breadth looking at NH and Iowa.

I have never been a huge fan. But perhaps Gephardt could be a spokeman for the disenfranchised middle america.

Hell Turnaround on the Contract for America seems like fairplay to me.

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. What do you mean by "nationalize"? n/t

[Perky]

2. Nationalizing COngressional elections means

rather than congressional politics being local and parochrial. Establishing big themes that everyone wotes on across the nation..

Typically it is 435 mico-race.. that is why the incumbern all ways wins.. make it about GOP failures just like they did witht he Contract for America in 1994. By tapping national anger, they moved 40plus seats to the other side of the aisle.

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. Ah. So you mean fundamentally rewrite the United States Constitution?

Because that is what it would take if I'm understanding you correctly. I seriously doubt that could be done in time for the 2008 election, not to mention the 2006.

[skids]

4. No, he means polemically.

He means campaign such that when voters go to the polls for congress and senate, what's in their mind is that they are voting against the Republican party and for the Dems, rather than against candidate X-R and for candidate Y-D.

This is done by pointing out the failures of the Republican-controlled body as a whole, rather than focusing entirely on the individual candidate.

[DURHAM D]

5. He means "Throw the Bums Out"

or "Republicans want your money to give to their friends"

or "Republicans don't keep their word"

or "Republicans don't care about working Americans"

etc. etc.