How Democrats can win Conservative districts without running DLC Candidates

[Tony_FLADEM]

Voters in conservative districts care about 2 issues:


1. Balancing the budget

2. Abortion


Democrats could be competitive in these districts if they embraced a balanced budget and worked to reduce the number of abortions.

Most of the abortions that take place every year are the result of economics

WHY ARE ABORTIONS PERFORMED?

•On average, women give at least 3 reasons for choosing abortion: 3/4 say that having a baby would interfere with work, school or other responsibilities; about 3/4 say they cannot afford a child; and 1/2 say they do not want to be a single parent or are having problems with their husband or partner (AGI)





Voters in conservative districts agree with progressives when it comes to regulating business and healthcare. We would not need Democrats that sellout to Corporations i.e. Blanche Lincoln if these 2 issues were addressed.

[andym]

1. economic populism might work in many conservative districts

keep jobs in USA via tax policy
rail against banks and large corporations shafting the common man...

[hedgehog]

2. I live in an Upstate New York red district, and know people who live in

a Kentucky Red District. Since we can't win or hold these districts with Republican-Lite candidates, how about running some Progressives? What have we got to lose? Try out some red-meat class warfare candidates willing to fight for our side and see what happens!

[Kalyke]

3. I live in a conservative area and abortion wasn't even

much on the radar.

Conservatives care about more than two issues.

They care about the budget, true. Abortion, somewhat (depends if they're a fiscal or social conservative - which would include the God, Gays, Guns divide).

But they do care about jobs. They care about earning a decent wage. The problem is that have been programmed to think that jobs are a up to down proposition - that only rich people hire people.

We have to show them that scenario is not necessarily true:
1. Middle class business owners hire people.
2. The government can assist in creating jobs by placing the proper regulations on certain business, i.e. tariffs to hold manufacturing jobs here or trade policies that initiate fair trade, not free trade.
And so on.

I'm just not sold on your "they only care about abortion" scenario.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Excuse me but do you live in a conservative district? I do. I totally disagree with

your naive belief that all conservatives care about is the balanced budget and abortion. In this election, abortion was never mentioned. Repealing 'Obamacare' was the lead in 90% of all GOP TV ads.

Here's a link for you: http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=26723

Now let's look at the voting records of one Senator John Kerry and one Senator Blanche Lincoln on just the subject of abortion:

Abortion Votes: Kerry's Lincoln's
Date Bill Title Vote Vote Outcome
12/22/2009 Senate Health Care Bill Amendments S Amdt 3276 (60 - 39) Y Y Amendment Adopted - Senate
12/08/2009 Prohibiting Federally Funded Abortion ServicesS Amdt 2962 Y Y Amendment Tabled - Senate
(54 - 45)
02/26/2008 Prohibiting the Funds in S 1200 from Being Used for Abortions N N Amendment Adopted - Senate
S Amdt 3896 (52 - 42)
10/18/2007 Prohibiting Funds for Groups that Perform Abortions S Amdt 3330 N N Amendment Rejected - Senate
(41 - 52)
09/06/2007 Prohibiting U.S. Assistance for Groups that Support Coercive N NV Amendment Adopted - Senate
Abortion S Amdt 2707 (48 - 45)
07/25/2006 Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act S 403 (65 - 34) N N Bill Passed - Senate
03/17/2005 Unintended Pregnancy Amendment S Amdt 244 (47 - 53) Y Y Amendment Rejected - Senate
10/21/2003 Prohibit Partial-Birth/Late Term Abortion bill S 3 N Y Report Adopted - Senate
(64 - 34)
06/21/2002 Military Abortion Amendment S Amdt 3927 Y N Amendment Adopted - Senate
(52 - 40)
06/20/2000 Military Abortions Amendment S Amdt 3252 (50 - 49) N N Amendment Tabled - Senate
02/02/2000 Violent Protesters Amendment S Amdt 2763 (80 - 17) Y Y Amendment Adopted - Senate
10/21/1999 Ban on Partial-Birth/Late Term Abortion S 1692 N Y Bill Passed - Senate
(63 - 34)
10/21/1999 Roe v. Wade Amendment S Amdt 2321 (51 - 47) Y Y Amendment Adopted - Senate
05/26/1999 Overseas Military Abortions Amendment S Amdt 397 (51 - 49) N N Amendment Tabled - Senate
09/18/1998 Partial-Birth/Late-Term Abortion bill HR 1122 N NV Veto Override Failed - Senate
(64 - 36)


With the exception of Partial-Birth, they are identical between the 'Senate's Most Liberal' and what you termed the 'Blue Dog Sell-out'.

Updated to try and fix columns, but it didn't work.