Remember we do NOT control the pro-administration oil and gas companies that have lowered gas prices prior to the primaries and more so before the November elections. Talk about buying votes. They are buying our votes and they are succeeding. There should be a law against this type of buying votes. Is there?

I worry that the gas and oil companies will win in November, regardless of everything else. We all must fight to not cave in to them.

So,I guess this means we are confident about Wisconsin then? It must be, because noone is mentioning the races there,even though there are an obsessive amout of attack ads against the Democrats by the Gawd aweful Republicans.

As election day approaches, it's not surprising to see the Bush Administration trot out the only ticket they can take to the game - their version of the War on Terror, replete with distortions and a generous helping of fear mongering. As I wrote earlier, this lynchpin for Bush is a difficult platform to attack, but effectively doing so will unravel the remaining support of moderates and middle America. The Extreme Right lemmings will continue to blindy follow the hubris and short-sighted policies of their out-of-touch leader.

After much thought as to alternatives, I believe the best tactics are to attack the loss of privacy/personal freedom, and to underscore that the War on Terror, as it is being waged in Iraq and Afghanistan are failing.

Bush's secret wiretapping is but the tip of the iceberg for things that have been done under the rationale of national security against the War on Terror. Even our courts agree it was illegal. Keep this (and other privacy abuses) in the spotlight as abuse of power from the War on Terror.

Bush had the perfect opportunity to wage an effective War on Terror after 911. However, his administration chose to manipulate that event (and continues to do so today) as a way to strike fear into the hearts of Americans in order to pressure them and Congress to grant his administration an inordinate level of power. The resulting arrogance coupled with a simplistic view of the US's role in the world produced policies that would distort intelligence and real events to produce the rationalization for the War in Iraq. There was no evidence of WMD's in Iraq, nor of Iraq supporting Al Qaeda. Instead, the arrogance of the simpletons in the White House led to the "expansion" of the War on Terror into the quagmire that is Iraq. Meanwhile, Bin-Laden is still loose in Afghanistan/Pakistan and the Taliban are resurgent, threatening to topple the nascent democracy in Afghanistan.

The hallmark of an effective War on Terror is one that has clear goals, and achieves those goals without abusing the rights of the citizens. The Bush Adminsitration has failed miserably on both accounts. The War on Terror as it plays out in Iraq is in disarray. It is time to publically start calling it what it is - The Civil War in Iraq. (The GOP would have no qualms doing this if a Democrat administration were in power.) As noted above, the war in Afghanistan has taken a turn for the worse as well. At home, the gov't abuses the power the people gave them with secret wiretaps, etc. All these factors point to a failed strategy and execution of the War on Terror. We cannot trust Bush or the GOP to provide an effective War on Terror. What they have given us is a quagmire that is killing our sons and daughters, and abuses of power at home that threaten our privacy and civil liberties.

Other levers that the GOP may try to use are lower gas prices and an improving economy.

It is interesting that gas prices are coming down as dramatically as they have in the last month, immediately leading up to the election. While Big Oil apologists will say that it is only market forces at work, it wouldn't surprise me that Karl Rove has been working his magic, by convincing the Bush Administration to influence Big Oil. We need to remind people that just because $2/gal gas is a lot less painful than $3/gal gas, they shouldn't forgive the cozy relationship between Bush and Big Oil that allowed Big Oil to gouge them with impunity. As long as Bush and the GOP are in power, our wallets are vulnerable to getting picked by the next "wave of fear" that grips the oil patch. There are no effective checks to the way Big Oil can gouge the consumer as long as the GOP controls Congress and the White House.

As for the improving economy, trickle down economics may have improved the average numbers, but has widened the gap between the rich and the middle class - note that the message needs to hit the middle class. While the rich get richer, ask the average American if his/her economic status has improved under Bush and the GOP, whether they have better paying and more secure jobs. Ask them whether they have maintained health and retirement benefits. I bet there will be a resounding NO! As Dems have stated, this administrations policies have rewarded the rich while maker the middle class struggle harder to maintain their standard of living.

The GOP will be mounting their usual attack this fall. The best defense is a great offense. The above areas are platforms from which they think they can derive strength to protect their seats in Congress. Crippling these areas of perceived strength will weaken their chances to retain power. Let's take back control of Congress.

Dear Dr Dean,

I am very disappointed with DNC’s strategy to use most resources to state or local level instead of national level. It does not make sense to make the Democratic Party competitive in every race, in every district, in every state and territory) The election of both chambers of congress is the most important and you need to put resources to these two elections at the first priority. If Democrats can not win the control of any chamber of congress, it will certainly demobilize many people and wining at state or local levels also does not make any sense, either.

When you concentrate on state or local level, I just feel that you try to continue your failed presidential bid, instead of using resources wisely to win both chambers of congress. Winning both chambers of congress will certainly mobilize the Party at state or local level. As we know that Bush tried to devoted resources to unwinnable Iraq war, it costs America a lot of money and lives. If DNC use resources to some unwinnable state or local areas, it may cost Democrats to lose both chambers of Congress.

I would say it’s better to at first put resource to winnable national election and then winnable state or local elections. If we cannot win national elections, winning local elections is meaningless.

I guess it's a matter of perspective. From where I live, the local level strategy has a lot to do with the bad taste a lot of the sell-out Republi-lites have left in the mouths of the voters. I would say that it's an effort to convince voters to vote for the person and not the party.
In a lot of rural areas, where years of Democrat neglect has lost voters who were once loyal to the party, it makes a lot of sense.
There are people here, for instance, who wouldn't see much difference between a Washington supported Democrat and the incumbent Republican, Conrad Burns, and would either go with the devil they know or vote third party.
The Democrat challenger, Jon Tester, since he is running as a local regular person will pick up more votes than if the DNC were to push the issue.

DNC Hispanic Caucus Chair gives $10,500 to Republicans!! What is going on when a senior official is giving money to Republican candidates?

Please copy and paste the following link to read a letter concerning this issue.

http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/IHYVReGmfUzeE1BTA_QEBSCp6aMxB1wGd267yy88BcUy6dWAD4GBAyk4xRdagyci2aVIhfJ0CCAvnAir3RuCDtwgDQSefgY-/Alvaro%20Letter.pdf

How can Chairman Dean allow this?

This post is in response to Roger Yes and anyone else who questions Chairman Deans fifty state Stragety.

I live in Omaha Nebraska. My state hasn't gone blue since Lyndon B. Johnson. We are in most consider fly by country. Since Governor Dean has demonstrated the Foresight to compete everywhere, We have a state party with full time employees.

We had over 300 delegates to our state convention (I know because I was the credentials chair) We have 93 county and we had 63 that held county Conventions. We now have caucuses and one of the most active CDA and YDA chapters around.

And if that isn't enough our Congressional races in the 1st and 3rd CD's are gaining momentum. We have a chance to pick up Tom Osborne's seat in a district that hasn't voted for a Democrat in over three decades!

The Republicans are so scared of losing these seats that Karl Rove and Dick Cheney have been to Nebraska to campaign on behalf of the GOP candidates.

Another great Candidate in the 2nd Cd where I am from is Jim Esch is runningf against 4term incumbent Lee Terry. Jim thinks thinks that our troops should be brought home immediately and refuses any PAC money including UNIOn!

If you have free time on your hands or money please check out the party's website and the links to these great candidates and come to Nebraska and help us give the GOP a black eye right in their own backyard!http://www.nebraskademocrats.orghttp://www.moulforcongress.org
http://www.jimesch.org
http://www.scottkleeb.com

Oh hey,

I also forgot to mention our great Candidate for Governor David Hahn who has pledge to forgoe his Salary as Govenor until we fix our economic problems here in the state.

This guy is very inteligent and just a stand up guy unlike our current Govenor who signed a bill segregating our schools into three indentifable districts by race. check out his website.
http://www.hahnfornebraska.org

This is a comment for Howard Dean, Rahm Emanuel, Chuck Schumer, and all of the political operatives at the Democratic Party. We must come together, NOW, as a party, and fight the Republican attempt to legalize torture and warrantless wiretapping. The public is ready for a revitalized Democratic party, even if the MSM doesn't believe it.

This is a vital week for the future of America. Since McCain and the other "reasonable" Republicans once again caved in to the Bush Machine's relentless pursuit of power, only the Democrats stand in the way of Bush's legalizing torture and illegal wiretapping of Americans.

It's time for the Democrats to once again unite, as they did on the Social Security campaign, this time, on the "War on Terror." 65 percent of Americans agree that torture should not be used against terrorist suspects. Nevertheless, the "compromise" bill would allow Bush to define the techniques that could be used against terrorists. This means, of course, that the torture techniques that have already been used will continue to be used. Worse yet, the bill absolves Bush and company from any war crimes liability that they may have already incurred because of their prior acts going back to 2001.

The Democrats were absolutely hapless earlier this year, when Feingold attempted to censure the President for illegal wiretapping. Because Rove perceived Democratic weakness on the terror issue, that's all we have heard about in the last six weeks. "Republicans are the only ones who will keep you safe, my dear."

Its high time for the Democrats to WAKE UP, and unite behind the following slogan: "We're Americans, and Americans Don't Torture, period!!!" We didn't torture Hitler, Goebbels or Goering, who slaughtered MILLIONS of Jews and others, and were responsible for 400,000 American soldiers' deaths, so why should we torture terrorists, even if they killed 3,000 Americans?

E-mail your Senators and Congresspersons NOW, and urge them to stop the Republican rollover on Bush's "War on Terror" torture and wiretapping techniques.

Here's my e-mail that I sent to Bill Clinton and all Democratic Senators:

An Open Letter to Former President Bill Clinton:

Dear President Clinton:

I am writing you, as the immediate former leader of the free world, in an effort to get America, and, in particular, Congressional Democrats, to WAKE UP!!!

The Bush Administration is getting away with murder, figuratively and literally. The latest effort to stop the Bush administration’s use of torture has failed, because of the Bush Administration’s unceasing efforts to insulate itself from liability for torture and illegal wiretapping. McCain and the other “dissident” Republican Senators caved in to Bush’s pressure, and adopted a compromise that essentially gives Bush what he wanted, a right to continue to interrogate terrorist suspects with techniques that amount to torture.

The Democrats should adopt the following slogan: “We’re Americans, and Americans don’t torture, ‘period.’ We didn’t torture Hitler, we didn’t torture Goebbels and Goering and other Nazis. We don’t need to torture terrorists, either.”

Mr. Clinton, only you, as the previous President, has the stature and authority to get the Democrats to wake up to the most egregious administration in the 230 year history of the United States, and stop the madness of torturing terrorists in the name of the “war on terror.”

Here is an article, written by Glenn Greenwald, that appeared in Saturday’s Salon, that summarizes my thoughts on this issue:

Battling Democrats' indifference
Even the most determined optimist would have a difficult time surveying our political landscape today and feeling anything other than a rising sense of hopelessness. Throughout 2004, the country began turning against the president as Americans realized that the principal justification for the war in Iraq -- WMD -- was completely false, and that the war that the Bush administration repeatedly led us to believe would be easily and quickly resolved was, in fact, a brewing disaster. In 2004, the president's approval ratings steadily declined as compared with the two prior years, but he was nonetheless reelected after an intense and frighteningly efficient Republican campaign.
Ever since President Bush's reelection, his approval ratings have descended even further, almost to historic lows. Most of the country has spent the last two years thoroughly dissatisfied, even disgusted, with the president and his party because of a mixture of ineptitude, corruption and deceit in virtually every realm. Yet now, Bush's political prospects have been gradually improving again as Americans are subjected to a relentless propaganda campaign of fear-mongering, underscored with the standard assault on Democrats as weak losers who are in cahoots with America's enemies. Iraq has all but disappeared from public view. In its place is one scary discussion of terrorism after the next.
There is a strong temptation to feel that if Americans allow themselves to be manipulated again in this manner -- if, after they spent the last two years thoroughly disgusted with the president, they maintain the stranglehold that Republicans so disastrously hold over all facets of our government -- then perhaps the country will deserve what it gets. The damage to our country from a Bush administration that is completely unchecked and unlimited for the next two years is hard to fathom, but if Americans choose that, they will reap the consequences of their choice.
That sentiment, unfortunately, is bolstered by the completely despicable -- and quite deliberate -- disappearing act of the Democratic Party at exactly the time our country debates some of the most profoundly important political issues of our time. News accounts of the "compromise agreement" reached by political leaders on the torture issue barely even mention Democrats at all. It is as though we do still have a two-party system, but the two political parties are the White House and congressional Republicans. Democrats are like some quirky little third party relegated to an afterthought and quoted almost as an act of charity. (Emphasis added)
But nobody did that to the Democrats. They consciously absented themselves from our political dialogue because they were afraid to take any position, and opted instead to anoint John McCain as their proxy. We literally don't even know the views of the Democrats on these interrogation issues because they haven't told us what those views are. Isn't that just unfathomable?
The Democrats have been and will continue to be equally mute and invisible on the warrantless-eavesdropping legislation. Recall that after the New York Times revealed that President Bush has been violating criminal law for the last five years by eavesdropping on our conversations without warrants, Sen. Russ Feingold wanted to have the Senate do nothing more than simply express the sentiment that the president ought not to violate the law. As Feingold explained when he introduced his censure resolution, if the Senate does nothing once it learns that the president is acting illegally, then it is, in effect, expressing its approval for presidential lawbreaking.
That's all Feingold wanted to do -- just have the Senate express its opposition to Bush's deliberate violations of the law. And yet only a small handful of Democratic senators supported him, while the rest either mumbled something about its being premature or outright attacked Feingold for introducing his resolution. Democrats were unwilling even to criticize the president for breaking the law when spying on Americans because they were afraid of being depicted as allies of the terrorists. That, of course, is same reason they chose to hide behind John McCain and Colin Powell rather than participate in any meaningful way in the debate over whether America should torture people.
With all those facts assembled, it is truly difficult to avoid indifference over the outcome of this upcoming election. But then one ponders what the next two years is likely to bring our country if the Bush administration continues to exercise full-scale, unchecked power over all facets of our government -- a Congress that rubber-stamps a war with Iran (if it is allowed to vote at all); a likely Supreme Court nomination to replace the 86-year-old John Paul Stevens, which would create an executive-power-worshiping majority on the Supreme Court for the next couple of decades; more presidential lawbreaking, and the further entrenchment of one-party rule. And then one realizes that indulging the desire to see the timid, meek, frightened, principle-less Beltway Democrats get what they deserve (still more defeat) is something that our country simply cannot afford if it is to have any hope of avoiding passing the point of no return, where both our national security and our national character are fundamentally degraded in a way that is irreversible.
The "opposition party" is literally missing, silent, mute and invisible. And yet the only hope for reversing or at least halting any of this is to have that same Democratic Party actually somehow win an election and provide some desperately needed gridlock and balance and investigative processes to find out what our government has been doing. That is about as bleak of a picture as one can imagine.

Mr. Clinton, let’s wake up the Democrats, before it’s too late!!! If the Democrats don’t successfully filibuster the “compromise” terrorist interrogation bill this week, they will look “weak” on terror, precisely the opposite of what they might otherwise believe. They will deserve to lose the elections this fall.

John Farbstein, Esq.
Belmont, California

I'm with ferbie.
It's a pretty sorry state of affairs when our former democratic president is the only one in the party showing any real leadership.
I got an email this morning asking me 'to look & see what Bill Clinton said on Fox, now send us some money so the Democrats can go on the offensive...in all 50 states'.
What is going on with this party?
Bill Clinton goes on Fox and challenges the lies
and I'm supposed to believe that now Howard Dean knows exactly what to do with my money to win in November?
Rove has been framing the debate in this country for the past 6 years and the Democrats for the most part have simply rolled over and played dead.
Notable exception, of course, is my fellow high school classmate, Sen. Russ Feingold! Where were the rest of the Democrats when Russ stood up
and said NO. Stop! This is WRONG! Why, checking which way the wind was blowing, of course.
If we can't win these elections by being right, by speaking truth to power, then that's the way we ought to lose...with honor.

K.McCann
Milton, Wisconsin

I sure hope the Republicans wipe the floor with the Democrats this November.

One reason I think this way is because the party of the jackass can't be trusted with the war on terror. I've read your blogs and the opinions of your followers, and have come to the opinion that you guys don't have a clue.

You say Bush is murdering for oil, that Rove is terrorizing the nation for political effect, that the threat to the United States comes from the Republicans and not international terrorism. In other words you have chosen to trade your nation's security for your own political agenda.

Let me guess, Clinton's ranting during his Wallace interview was accurate. There's a "vast right wing conspiracy" which rules the planet, and the attacks of September 11, 2001 were a C.I.A./N.S.A./Fox News operation to strengthen the Republicans.

Then don't forget Hurricane Katrina was produced by the Republicans and their hatred of the environment. I mean who believes that a Republican voter would actually want clean air and water. And oh yeah, remember the words of that rapper who said "Bush hates black people" so he decided to force the mostly black population of New Orleans stay in the path of a category 5 hurricane. I guess the Democrat Mayor, and Democrat Governor had nothing to do with that, and neither did any other Democratic Presidential administration over the last 40 years.

You guys have become a ridiculous party of conspiracy theorists, and hopefully will diminish into oblivion just as your glory years of the hippie ridden 1960's did.

I think we realy need to make a issue of what the national deficit was when Bill Clinton took over from the first George Bush, what it was when W took over and what it is now. Thanks, Ttime

Ahhhhh!!! So many issues, so little time!
Vast right wing conspiracy? Nah. Just the uber-rich members of the wannabe oiligarchy buying out politicians so they can convert this first world nation into a third world dictatorship, a la the Mexican Profierato of the of that last century, with colonial overtones.
They've already attacked the Bill of Rights, the balance of powers, given the uber-rich practically a free ride in the tax arena leaving the rest of us to pay for the infrastructure and services that the uber-rich demand. They've lied to start a war for whatever unrevealed reason, and proceeded to give no-bid contracts to their inner circle of war profiteers, while cutting help for veterans and working poor, and denying the people who are making all this possible an incresase in the minimum wage so they can bet back up to poverty level. Shall I go on?
What's the use? There are the ignorant, the stupid, and the willfully ignorant, who are the really stupid masquerading as people who know something.

A much much better site for a state-by-state look at our Senate races is here:

http://www.electoral-vote.com:2006/

It is the premier website for keeping track of each Senate race.
Hover your mouse over each state for the current percentages, and then click on the state for the more detailed analysis.

Nothing against you, but I have always found your dailykos site to be about one thing and one thing only, and that is to see how much money this "markos" clown can cram into his own pockets by hitchhiking off the hard work of everyone else.

Reading the poll about the senator race in Connecticut just make me feel sad for those miserable democrats who still dare to support the old selfish power-monger Lieberman at the expense of their well-being of not only US citizens but all mankind. I dare to predict that if the hawkish republican can remain in power in both congress, the Bushshit administration will once again claim having the mandate of the people and wage wars in the middle east with the pretense of fighting terrorism and god knows how many more innocent lives will be lost in this senseless, ego-drived, create hatred ,foolish....
This is not a prediction or guess. I am so afraid that it is going to happen after November 7th.

Reading the poll about the senator race in Connecticut just make me feel sad for those miserable democrats who still dare to support the old selfish power-monger Lieberman at the expense of the well-being of not only US citizens but all mankind. I dare to predict that if the hawkish republican can remain in power in both congress, the Bushshit administration will once again claim having the mandate of the people and wage wars in the middle east with the pretense of fighting terrorism and god knows how many more innocent lives will be lost in this senseless, ego-drived, create hatred ,foolish....
This is not a prediction or guess. I am so afraid that it is going to happen after November 7th.

Please don’t allow the Democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The right has handed us this election on a silver platter. Whether or not the torture legislation passes we can use this issue to our advantage. On every issue the Democrats have shown themselves to be on the side of America.
Security: Recruitment numbers are down because of the way this administration treats it’s service people. People are not reenlisting making the fighting force smaller, more inexperienced, weaker and this country less secure. Passing the torture legislation shows that this administration has no regard for our own soldiers. The United States has the very highest standards for the treatment of prisoners. Passage of this legislation opens up the way for every country to enact their own methods such as cutting off fingers and toes, attaching electrodes to genitals or anything else they think is perfectly fine to do to get information from Americans. There is nothing that says other countries will adopt our “humane” methods. We just don’t have that kind of clout any more if we ever did. This administration has further shown disregard for our fighting people by taking months to provide proper armor and equipment. When these people serve and come home with brain damage, without limbs and their lives permanently changed they find that Republicans are constantly chipping away at their benefits so that they can give the vulgarly rich more and more tax cuts. After all, it is much more important that neither Paris Hilton nor any of her offspring ever work a single day of their lives than it is to treat a soldier’s brain injury. This can only make this country less secure because the people fighting get out of the service as soon as they can and new recruits won’t join when they know that they’ll just get shafted by the country they sacrificed so much for. When it comes to security the republicans don’t have a leg to stand on!!! MAKE SURE AMERICA KNOWS IT!!!
Use their own words against them. Use “cut and run” to describe what Bush did in Afghanistan. When Bush cut the numbers of troops and ran to Iraq out of Afghanistan he made America less secure by not keeping pressure on Bin Laden and by creating terrorists in Iraq.
Every Other Issue: Given! Constantly place before the people of this country every piece of legislation passed for the benefit of Americans that the Republicans voted against over the years. There should be a billboard on every corner of this country with this list. Many people who vote republican just don’t know that the people they vote for only care about huge corporations and the rich. If the GOP could possibly get away with it they would overturn every piece of workers rights legislation, clean air legislation, clean water legislation, safe drugs, safe, cars, food and absolutely everything else that benefits citizens over the corporations because average citizens can’t afford to buy senators. Republicans have shown that they care about their own pockets and nothing and no one else.
Look, Democrats are on he side of America on all issues. You must use plain language, saying that a vote for a Republican is a vote against the best interests of America.
Lastly, I am an African-American, single mother and the Dems. MUST show the people of this country that they are LISTENING to all of us and acting on what we say. They must find a way to show that Democrats really do go to Washington to.... represent...... what average Americans need and want for this country and that they really do know that the rich people don’t need leaders to fight for them. I propose that the DNC gather a panel of about 5 very average people to help run the balance of this election. Publicize that they are taking a lead role in the Democratic party and that they are not just window dressing like the black people at the republican convention. The feeling of insugnificance hurts the left more than the right. Most of us have the feeling that because we are not rich or famous no one care and no one islistening. Get a black teacher, a truck driver, an hispanic soldier, an elderly person who is a small business owner, a couple of teenagers, people with no health insurance, scraping just to get by to represent what the Democrats are really all about. Put them out front before the entire country, make them celebrities. Have them campaign in every state possible. This is the democratic base. Juxtapose with this panel Bush’s statement that the “haves and the have mores” are the republican base.
Please for the sake of my children, the Democrats can’t let this election go because we have got it. It is for the Democratic leaders to keep it or to give it away. If they do our feeling of despair will just go through the roof. In ‘04 John Edwards said “help is on the way.” It’s time for our Democratic leaders to make good.

So Sincerely,
Renee Kaplowitz

Please don’t allow the Democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The right has handed us this election on a silver platter. Whether or not the torture legislation passes we can use this issue to our advantage. On every issue the Democrats have shown themselves to be on the side of America.
Security: Recruitment numbers are down because of the way this administration treats it’s service people. People are not reenlisting making the fighting force smaller, more inexperienced, weaker and this country less secure. Passing the torture legislation shows that this administration has no regard for our own soldiers. The United States has the very highest standards for the treatment of prisoners. Passage of this legislation opens up the way for every country to enact their own methods such as cutting off fingers and toes, attaching electrodes to genitals or anything else they think is perfectly fine to do to get information from Americans. There is nothing that says other countries will adopt our “humane” methods. We just don’t have that kind of clout any more if we ever did. This administration has further shown disregard for our fighting people by taking months to provide proper armor and equipment. When these people serve and come home with brain damage, without limbs and their lives permanently changed they find that Republicans are constantly chipping away at their benefits so that they can give the vulgarly rich more and more tax cuts. After all, it is much more important that neither Paris Hilton nor any of her offspring ever work a single day of their lives than it is to treat a soldier’s brain injury. This can only make this country less secure because the people fighting get out of the service as soon as they can and new recruits won’t join when they know that they’ll just get shafted by the country they sacrificed so much for. When it comes to security the republicans don’t have a leg to stand on!!! MAKE SURE AMERICA KNOWS IT!!!
Use their own words against them. Use “cut and run” to describe what Bush did in Afghanistan. When Bush cut the numbers of troops and ran to Iraq out of Afghanistan he made America less secure by not keeping pressure on Bin Laden and by creating terrorists in Iraq.
Every Other Issue: Given! Constantly place before the people of this country every piece of legislation passed for the benefit of Americans that the Republicans voted against over the years. There should be a billboard on every corner of this country with this list. Many people who vote republican just don’t know that the people they vote for only care about huge corporations and the rich. If the GOP could possibly get away with it they would overturn every piece of workers rights legislation, clean air legislation, clean water legislation, safe drugs, safe, cars, food and absolutely everything else that benefits citizens over the corporations because average citizens can’t afford to buy senators. Republicans have shown that they care about their own pockets and nothing and no one else.
Look, Democrats are on he side of America on all issues. You must use plain language, saying that a vote for a Republican is a vote against the best interests of America.
Lastly, I am an African-American, single mother and the Dems. MUST show the people of this country that they are LISTENING to all of us and acting on what we say. They must find a way to show that Democrats really do go to Washington to.... represent...... what average Americans need and want for this country and that they really do know that the rich people don’t need leaders to fight for them. I propose that the DNC gather a panel of about 5 very average people to help run the balance of this election. Publicize that they are taking a lead role in the Democratic party and that they are not just window dressing like the black people at the republican convention. The feeling of insugnificance hurts the left more than the right. Most of us have the feeling that because we are not rich or famous no one care and no one islistening. Get a black teacher, a truck driver, an hispanic soldier, an elderly person who is a small business owner, a couple of teenagers, people with no health insurance, scraping just to get by to represent what the Democrats are really all about. Put them out front before the entire country, make them celebrities. Have them campaign in every state possible. This is the democratic base. Juxtapose with this panel Bush’s statement that the “haves and the have mores” are the republican base.
Please for the sake of my children, the Democrats can’t let this election go because we have got it. It is for the Democratic leaders to keep it or to give it away. If they do our feeling of despair will just go through the roof. In ‘04 John Edwards said “help is on the way.” It’s time for our Democratic leaders to make good.

So Sincerely,
Renee Kaplowitz

More ammunition to show that GOP policy and tax cuts have helped the rich at the expense of the middle class: http://money.cnn.com/2006/09/28/news/economy/middle_class.reut/index.htm?postversion=2006092816.