I believe that the change our nation needs is truly coming from the bottom up, not the top down.
This week as I struggle with disappointment, frustration and anger over the Mukesay nomination, and FISA, Feinstein and Schumer, Pelosi, and other leaders who I don't feel are truly trying as hard as they can to get us out of this war... This week as I try to stay engaged, and try to choose a candidate that I really believe will be the best president... this week that was full of hard news for grassroots democrats- People have asked me why they should give money to democrats abroad, or the DNC or anyone in the party, considering the voting record of congress recently. Why should we support the 50 state campaign?
I can tell you why...
Today I read news about the recent election across the country- and this is what I see, this is what we should all celebrate, this is what matters for long term change and for the future of our country! This is news from my home state of PA, which mirrors what people are seeing around the country! Change is coming in waves and small starts but it is coming. And we need to support it, and look for what we can celebrate and build on our victories everywhere. (see the story below)
*the littles gator
Member- Democrats Abroad Japan
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BY BORYS KRAWCZENIUK
TIMES SHAMROCK WRITER
11/15/2007
Before President Bush was re-elected in 2004, Pennsylvania was considered a "purple state."
For the uninitiated, that’s a mixture of a red state, with solidly Republican voters, and a blue state, solid Democratic. It’s a state that goes back and forth in voting for statewide candidates.
After the latest election, it’s harder to call Penn’s Woods anything but blue and to wonder whether the toxic political climate for Republicans spawned by the president is hurting even their local candidates.
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Democrats won the two open state Supreme Court seats, regaining the majority on that court, and one of three Superior Court seats.
Democrats also wrested the majority from Republicans in 12 county commissioners offices, including, apparently, hardcore Republican counties such as Bradford and Susquehanna.
The wins included Democratic Lackawanna and slightly Republican Northumberland, meaning four were in the 10th Congressional District.
Republicans won the majority in only four previously Democratic-held counties, two of them staunchly Republican in voter registration, anyway.
Across the nation, governorships remained 28-22 in Democratic hands, but Democrats gained control of the Virginia Senate for the first time in a decade.
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"It’s the unpopularity of the president, the unpopularity of the war (in Iraq), the disconnect between a right-wing Republican Party nationally and a moderate Republican Party in Pennsylvania," said Larry Ceisler, whose lobbying firm co-owns PoliticsPA.com, a popular Web site that monitors state politics.
"We have conservatives in Pennsylvania, but they’re just not the same hard-edged conservatives as nationally."
In other words, give them a reason, and they’ll vote for Democrats.
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Most polls show the Democratic Congress more unpopular than the last Republican Congress, but Republicans generally remain less popular than Democrats, and Mr. Bush’s poll numbers remain at historic lows.
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Democrats won five of the nine row offices in Montgomery County for the first time ever.
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President Bush’s decision this week to veto a labor, health and human services and education spending bill full of key projects for Pennsylvania while demanding $200 billion more for the war likely won’t help, either.
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what are your local and state stories that we should celebrate?