The Hackett situation is good news for Dems...He made an incredible

[rasputin1952]

showing in a heavily GOP District. For all of the crowing of the RW and GOP, anyone that is politically astute, knows that they are running scared now. For the 2nd District to squeak by in this election, shows that many of the I's and R's have moved away from bush and his reckless policies. One House seat is essentially irrelevant in the scheme of things as they sit right now...it is the fact that Hackett made such a strong showing in this Special Election.

We are looking at a phenomenon here, and it bodes well for the '06 Mid-Term! A basically no-name candidate took on the power, and damn near won. The WH and GOP Leadership are going to change tack soon; the war is their destruction, the other asininity just fuels the fire.

Bottom line...the admin is going to ramp up the rhetoric; something new and scary will develop; there will be talk of 'withdrawal' from Iraq, (not gonna happen soon, but they'll bring it up); fear is their only trump card.

If Hackett had more support from the stay-at-home, the only place Schmidt would sit, is on a toilet. We can win '06...Now is the time to work and prepare!!!!!!!

[livvy]

1. Someone in the Ohio forum started a "Thank You, Paul" link.

People might want to drop by a send a thank you note for the incredible campaign he ran, and for speaking the truth. What a remarkable person!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=172x7567

[Wickerman]

2. Excellent post, sir

an excellent analysis.

[brokensymmetry]

3. The tidal wave is coming.

I was talking with a fellow - a Texan - who has voted for * in every race; he is now as disgusted with Chimpy as any of us. In fact, he said he intended to vote for Hillary in 2008 as a protest vote. He wasn't kidding.

Rove, Bolton, and the bloodletting in Iraq are destroying the pugs. I can see us recapturing both House and Senate. And I, for one, will enjoy seeing the Congressional hearings that will come. :evilgrin:

Nominated and kicked!

[formernaderite]

4. Do you suggest we run

democrats without mentioning party affiliation in their ads to win? Don't get me wrong, I had gone to Pauls site before the election and found him to be philisophically in tuned with my own thinking. However, after viewing his campaign ad with Bush in the forefront, and never mentioning he was a democrat....I wondered if he was just trying to confuse the voters. I suppose it's a tactic that could work once...but we shouldn't count on it working time after time.

[rasputin1952]

5. No, I think we should stick to the issues, and speak the truth.

This is what hackett did, and it paid off. Thousands of R/I votes went to him because he was in tune w/the general public. He changed things for the better, and gave us a template to go by.

Millions of Americans that voted for bush are ticked. Whether we put Dem on the ads or not is irrelevant. If we speak out about the real issues, and not get too technical unless necessary, we can beat the tar out of these goomers. Americans are seriously waiting for someone to tell them the truth, and have the spine to call it as they see it. Most Americans are of like mind on many things, and using just one or two items is what is getting us beaten into the ground. All we need to do is show that we are in tune with the vast majority or Americans, and we will trounce the opposition at every turn. Our message and our party affiliation is not the problem....it is how we put that message out that is crimping our style.

[formernaderite]

6. I think there was a disconnect between his ads and his interviews

Why start and ad with a soundbyte from Bush unless you're trying to sound like a quasi-Bush supporter? I was a bit repulsed by that. I think that speaks to more than just not mentioning that he's a democrat in the ads.

[rasputin1952]

7. I saw some interviews, but no ads. Being in NE, they were not going

to spend $ where I could see it...:(

The whole point though, is that he took away a massive %age from a seriously heavy R district. No matter what they say about it, this was a terrifying "win" for them. If more people would have gone out and voted, those 4000+ that got Schmidt over the top might have been erased. She should have won by 10,000+...she got her gruesome ass kicked, if she could not muster up the usual 80% in that district.

Her people ran a smear campaign against Hackett, and most Americans are up to snuff on that trick by now; they didn't buy it. She may well b out of there come Nov '06....:D