During 2004 cycle, we organized (sort of), we raised money, we volunteered, we made phone calls. What dids the other side do?
1. they had a simple unified message that
2. they repeated relentlessly
3. regardless of context.
4. And they talked to their neighbors.
Obama is right: progressives need to embrace evangelicals. Even if you don't believe, I think most progressives can agree on a broad range of values. What we need to do to win is
more at the jump
Listen to our neighbors. Talk to them, learn their language, their anxieties, their touch point. This is
not the time to convince, it's time to seduce. America is in search of other, but we are not offering constructive alternatives. We don't need a plan: we need a language to speak to America. So give your money and talk to your neighbor. Make 06 about them. We have to give them a reason to vote.