The campaign schedule has been pretty intense over the last week and will continue to be so until the BIG day on Tuesday, November 4th. I want to congratulate everyone for putting so much effort into this year's election, not just for an individual campaign, but for the entire Democratic ticket. I've seen people in every community throughout the 5th district working to make sure the message is getting out.
I want to remind everyone it is important that we finish strong. Don't take anything for granted, ignore the polls and work like the polls show our candidates 5 points down. Remember, while all indications show Barack Obama will be our next president, if we believe the polls, Al Gore would be concluding his second term or we would be working to re-elect President John Kerry right now.
(This is a project from an innovative media consultant worth discussing. - promoted by Matt Stoller)
Did anyone hear what Karl Rove said right after the 2006 election? The very next day, he started talking about how the Democrats didn't win, but that the Republicans lost? Did that come up on anyone else's radar? Well, it did on mine. And while I was obviously insulted because at the time I knew exactly how much hard work our party put into that election, I didn't get too upset because at that point it seemed the least of what these guys had done to our party, and our country. But when a smart, liberal friend of mine parroted the exact same thing to me a few days later, it really bugged me.
After gently enlightening my progressive friend to the dangers of regurgitating Republican propaganda in my presence, I asked myself, why? Why have the Republicans been so effective in turning their lies, their incompetence, into a story about our bias and our weakness?
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