Here is what we need to do, and I mean right now. We need to start campaigning in all 50 states. I know people are exhausted, I know they are stressed. I know they have less money now than in 2007-08 when we out spent the GOP 2-1. But we have a unique opportunity, we can crush the GOP. Right now, the GOP is going to attack attack attack. They are geared up to swing into campaign mode and to lie their way into more seats in the house and senate
What Winning Means (A political game plan)
"We’re trying and they are lying"
Here is what we need to do, and I mean right now. We need to start campaigning in all 50 states. I know people are exhausted, I know they are stressed. I know they have less money now than in 2007-08 when we out spent the GOP 2-1. But we have a unique opportunity, we can crush the GOP. Right now, the GOP is going to attack attack attack. They are geared up to swing into campaign mode and to lie their way into more seats in the house and senate. The great equalizer, now that we’ve passed this bill, is money. What I suggest people do is pick candidates. Find people you like in your local, state, and federal elections and share that information with the rest of us. Choose Kos, or any blog but come out for your candidates right away. Don’t just tell us what you dislike about someone else; tell us what you love about your guy. If you like Kendrick Meek in FL tell us about him, why you like him, what he brings to the table and how you envision him winning. We have to reform our online communities and start fighting for 2010.
This is the single most expensive election cycle in history. Just some highlights from the senate side: NY, CA, IL, PA, FL, OH, NH, (gets Boston media) just to name a few. These races are the most expensive media markets in the nation. Add Dallas and Houston for the Texas governor’s race and we have every major market except D.C. and Atlanta. We are going to need billions of dollars for these races, a billion for the senate alone. We have seen over the last 15 months exactly how important every vote in the house and senate is. We need money. But I for one am sick of funding people only because they can win. I want people I can believe in too.
Spend the time during the next couple of days and start researching your people, I’ll research mine. When you find a good candidate tell other people about them. We need small donations; tons and tons of small donations. Small donations give greater flexibility and they also translate into more participation. We still have a chance to make 2010 the third cycle, 2006-2008-2010 in the progressive revolution but we have to get off the mat, right now.
My first guy is Kendrick Meek: a couple of things I really like about the guy, one of his major initiatives in the state legislature in FL was to shrink class sizes in inner city schools. I believe, as an educator, that small classes are the single biggest hurdle to academic success in the inner city. There are tons of other problems but the large class size makes solutions to those problems impossible. Second and this is before the Haiti earthquake, Meek was involved in expanding the textile credit that allows Haiti to sell directly to the US and allows the US to buy from them as a first choice. It helps their economy without giving direct aid, which we all know is a tough sell sometimes. There are other things he has done well, his focus on young men in the urban environment, helping students achieve, working to help create some stability in his South Florida district with aid for natural disaster relief, all of these and more are reasons I like the guy. A lot. Looks like he is going to be running against Marc Rubio, and frankly I am thrilled. We couldn’t have beaten Crist, but Rubio is more conservative than Sarah Palin. He is a nut. And we’re going to have a real chance to beat him. I think Kos is raising money for him already but I calculate FL as a 50-80 million dollars race.
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