Via
MyDD, we have the
latest ARG numbers:
Among all Americans, 36% approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president and 58% disapprove.
HOLY SHIT. Bush actually dropped below 40.
This means 2006 could be tidal. But a tidal wave does us no good if we don't have Democrats running everywhere to take advantage of it.
In 2006, we need to challenge all 231 Republicans in congress. Every single one.
MSNBC :
WASHINGTON - Democratic bloggers say they are beginning to transform the way political campaigns are run, pointing to their recent success in raising more than $550,000 for Democratic congressional candidate Paul Hackett, a Marine veteran of the Iraq war, who came within 4,000 votes of defeating Republican Jean Schmidt two weeks ago in a special election in a heavily Republican district in Ohio.
The work of such bloggers as Bob Brigham of Swingstateproject.com points toward a day when the traditional campaign "tailored by Washington-based consultants, centered on 30-second TV ads, with fund-raising driven by Washington-based party committees" might become obsolete.
We can't wait for Tivo to destroy are communication ability, we need to move beyond ads and fight everywhere.
In recent election cycles, each side has narrowed its sights to about three dozen targeted House districts.
Each party committee husbands its resources, considering it futile to spend money to try to win a district where the opposing party's incumbent won his or her last election with 60 percent.
But Brigham envisions a vastly expanded field of battle, forcing Republicans to spend time and money to defend what have until now been considered "safe" GOP districts.
"We tried the targeted way and it hasn't worked, so we'll try something new" he said.
Leave No District Behind
On Monday, Brigham and his allies are launching a new political action committee (PAC) called "Leave No District Behind."
Vastly expanding the battlefield
Brigham wants the Democrats to field House candidates in every congressional district, instead of allowing dozens of districts to go uncontested as they did in last year's campaign.
He reckons that $100,000 invested in each of the uncontested House districts would at least give the Democrats a candidate and a minimal staff.
Heading the PAC will be Deborah Rappaport, who along with her husband Silicon Valley venture capitalist Andy Rappaport, ranked among the top ten donors in the 2004 campaign to so-called "527"groups, the tax-exempt organizations that engage in politicking and collect unlimited contributions.
No one PAC can change the calculus. Leave No District Behind will seek to change the mindset and organize at the grassroots level to give candidates the tools to compete.
Join us.
Leave No District Behind.