If the extremes are totally invested in the failure of the Democrats..

[Peacetrain]

I think we should target those moderates that are left because they are as scared of the teaparty people as we are.

There are people who pull that R just out of habit, and really have nothing in common with what passes for the Republican party today.

[old mark]

1. I think Obama does that quite well - he has been playing to moderates of both parties

since the election, despite that warnings from the right that he was "the most liberal Democrat in the Senate", that he was a "socialist", etc...he will be pulling in some votes from the abandoned center of the GOP - they are not wanted in their party, and it only makes sense to try to pick them up...

The Democratic left will have to just tag along, I guess, and continue to push him in our direction, however reluctant he may be to go there...

IF we can get out the Democratic vote in November, we will do much better than is "predicted" by the "experts".

rec.
mark

[Peacetrain]

2. There is nothing that I would love more than to see those "experts"

choke on their own predictions.

I am all about GOTV.. That is the only way we get anything through congress.. and sometimes it is more about stomping on the cockroaches before they try and move back in.